I Sit on a hill just at the southern edge of furthest extent of the Pleistocene Age Kansas Icesheet! If it returns I expect a substantial amount of lead time to gather up my stuff and move a few miles deeper south in Kansas! (I think Dept Ag. would have to rework the the growing zones!) Here you actually have to pay a substantial amount for water every 2 months! It would be great to get water from the ice melt! (Grew up next to lake Michigan...my father paid $16 per year for water!) 
(Diana in the Driftless! Thought you might like the map!)