“I still remember a 2 inch long roach falling into my tomato soup in Miami as a third grader.” And they fly! We lived in Houston for three years when I was in grade school. I think 2 inches is an understatement.
That’s nothing. I worked in NYC doing demolition in buildings in Manhattan and the Bronx. I saw cockroaches big enough to make eye contact with, I’m not kidding you. Four to five inches inches long and they could fly. New Yorkers call them wattha bug’’(’’water bugs’’).