Re: OT: THEY are here...
Well, I'm back from my trip to San Antonio (another topic in itself), and Brood X is out in full force. (They actually were starting to emerge when I left Monday morning.) A few observations...
1) they are exactly as big, ugly, and stupid as advertised. Counting the wings, they are about as long as your thumb. Big, bulging red eyes. Despite having such large eyes, they routinely fly into things (trees, branches, telephone poles, you) that are in their bumbling way. When they hit something, they drop to the ground and sit there. The roads in my subdivision are covered with flattened cicadas.
2) They droning sound they make (which goes on 24/7) sounds very much like a raygun from one of those old 1950's UFO movies.
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