Cicada Invasion, 2004

Wandrail said:
Well, perennial cicadas don't scream, just these ones that crawl out of the ground every 7 years or however long.
17 years.

They are now all over the place. It is so loud you got to shut the door to watch the TV. There must be thousands on my front tree alone.

When they die they rot and smell like linburger cheese....
 
I live in Los Angeles and we don't get these.




However, we do have earthquakes, fires, riots, and the likes.
 
I always think riots are the funniest thing - who really is enough of an idiot bleeding heart to accept the idea that because a black dude is done some injustice, the logical response is that his fellow black americans go steal TVs and fridges? Silliness. Only thing that's worse is a bunch of stupid white college kids rioting because their team won or lost some bullshit game - then they whine about how cops beat them or gassed them. Not like cicadas, they just want to get it on and die. They can't even eat, I read, with their rather ineffective mouths - they can only drink and scream.