This spring, for the first time since 1803, two cicada groups known as
Brood XIX, or the Great Southern Brood, and Brood XIII, or the Northern
Illinois Brood, are set to appear at the same time, in what is known as a
dual emergence.
...
To put that into perspective, one
trillion cicadas, each of which are just over an inch long, would cover
15,782,828 miles if they were laid end-to-end. âThat cicada train would reach to the moon and back 33 times,â
...
According
to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, during a 1990 cicada
emergence, âthere were reports from people in Chicago having to use snow
shovels to clear their sidewalks of the dead cicadas.â
We're headed to Illinois next month for our annual visit with fambly; this will be an added bonus.
Im pretty sure this same coincidence occurred in â71. A friend & were camping in a hardwood forrest & because we had recent experience with weak LSD we doubled the dose. It turned out it was Owesly. So, woopie! My blonde Leo friend had become a magnificent lion & I was sailing some great albums into the woods to stop the ticking insect sounds. We had a Singer battery powered record player & it had lost the phono needle. We made a replacement from a spiral notebook binding. It played the lps but carved fine hairs of vinyl from the records. The cicada were different than our typical ones in that they were blue with red eyes. Trippy : ) The news made a big deal of the number of bugs for weeks & we all got an education about the different cycles. Cicadas are not only insects but are also true bugs. They have a syphon mouth that they will stab you with when you catch one. Some thought the sound was a sign of the world ending. It was very loud & some folks were suicidal. I have tinnitus, but it doesnât bother me because I became used to the cicada song every year
This spring, for the first time since 1803, two cicada groups known as
Brood XIX, or the Great Southern Brood, and Brood XIII, or the Northern
Illinois Brood, are set to appear at the same time, in what is known as a
dual emergence.
...
To put that into perspective, one
trillion cicadas, each of which are just over an inch long, would cover
15,782,828 miles if they were laid end-to-end. âThat cicada train would reach to the moon and back 33 times,â
...
According
to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, during a 1990 cicada
emergence, âthere were reports from people in Chicago having to use snow
shovels to clear their sidewalks of the dead cicadas.â
The driveway on the other side goes down to four or five set-back houses, most of which are rentals, mostly with UNC undergrads living in them - so sometimes there are noise complaints at night when they have their parties. There is another house with a family and I've heard loud arguments from there over the years - maybe it was about them, or it could've been some kind of burglary/car break-in issue.
It was odd though - like WTF? The town I live in is pretty small and I've lived here for over 20 years. I see the cops around town a lot; one of them recognized me.
It was odd though - like WTF? The town I live in is pretty small and I've lived here for over 20 years. I see the cops around town a lot; at least one of them recognized me.
A police car just pulled up my driveway and another stopped on the street in front of my house. When I came out to ask what was going on they said they realized that they should've gone to the driveway on the other side of the wooded lot beside my house. Weird. At least they smiled and apologized. I have to replace or repair the numbers on my mailbox.
A police car just pulled up my driveway and another stopped on the street in front of my house. When I came out to ask what was going on they said they realized that they should've gone to the driveway on the other side of the wooded lot beside my house. Weird. At least they smiled and apologized. I have to replace or repair the numbers on my mailbox.
This spring, for the first time since 1803, two cicada groups known as
Brood XIX, or the Great Southern Brood, and Brood XIII, or the Northern
Illinois Brood, are set to appear at the same time, in what is known as a
dual emergence.
...
To put that into perspective, one
trillion cicadas, each of which are just over an inch long, would cover
15,782,828 miles if they were laid end-to-end. âThat cicada train would reach to the moon and back 33 times,â
...
According
to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, during a 1990 cicada
emergence, âthere were reports from people in Chicago having to use snow
shovels to clear their sidewalks of the dead cicadas.â
This spring, for the first time since 1803, two cicada groups known as
Brood XIX, or the Great Southern Brood, and Brood XIII, or the Northern
Illinois Brood, are set to appear at the same time, in what is known as a
dual emergence.
...
To put that into perspective, one
trillion cicadas, each of which are just over an inch long, would cover
15,782,828 miles if they were laid end-to-end. âThat cicada train would reach to the moon and back 33 times,â
...
According
to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, during a 1990 cicada
emergence, âthere were reports from people in Chicago having to use snow
shovels to clear their sidewalks of the dead cicadas.â
I ordered a thing that will be made out of plastic. I said in my email that it's to be 3/8" because the last ones I ordered were 1/2" and that's too thick. They called back and said at 3/8, they think it will be too fragile, and the smallest they advise is 3/10. I ignored that and said well I see in the catalog that it comes in 3/8 and 1/2; I want the 3/8. He said 7/16 would be okay; the smallest they'll do is "point-three something." I said "point three seven five?" He says "that could be. Point 3 is three tenths, so that must be it."
So. 0.4375 inches it will be.
Tell them it will be pointed towards Canada, so it needs to be metric.
I ordered a thing that will be made out of plastic. I said in my email that it's to be 3/8" because the last ones I ordered were 1/2" and that's too thick. They called back and said at 3/8, they think it will be too fragile, and the smallest they advise is 3/10. I ignored that and said well I see in the catalog that it comes in 3/8 and 1/2; I want the 3/8. He said 7/16 would be okay; the smallest they'll do is "point-three something." I said "point three seven five?" He says "that could be. Point 3 is three tenths, so that must be it."
That I've been fahrting on the Autobahn too long. ;)
Mike T from Chicago is on the back of my 1974 Kawasaki H2 triple. We zipped down to Frankfurt from Butzbach to go to S@#* Park to find some red plate or bubblegum black.
I had an old gas mask bag from the WW1 over the side that I kept tools and whatever in and, unbeknownst to us, had fallen over the end of one of the exhaust pipes and was flaming while we flew along. Some guy pulls along side and clues us in. I almost ran off the road. LOL
I pulled over and bested a reset and we moved on downtown to the park and copped. It was the black. Man that hash was good.
And that motorcycle was fast...
I hated losing that cool bag...
