Spring of 2022 has been weird

It has been a weird spring.

They call Chicago the Windy City, but I grew up in Chicago and had never experienced wind like the winds that we had earlier this month. Continued wind gusts over 75 miles per hour in our part of the Hi-Line was a crazy experience.

So many in our community experienced big losses due to wind but for some reason, our house was spared for the most part. We lost a couple of shingles, and I lost the peanuts from our bird feeder, but we were pretty fortunate.

I am saddened that the Phillips County Fairgrounds have taken so much damage due to those winds and am hoping that...