How'd we end up here?

A pic from last week's ice storm. It's times like these that really make me wonder how it came to be that my family decided to pack up and move across the world to Iowa, of all places. Most of us Filipino folk tend to head for the west coast but not our family. We say, give us the subzero temps and the snow we refuse to drive in. Perhaps it's the sweet Midwestern values that sucked all of us in.