[egarvue]

Last time this particular brood came out, it was 1987. There were so many covering my town (Lousiville KY) that the streets were covered in squished-cicada paste. An enterprising t-shirt maker sold thousands of t-shirts with a design of a cicada emerging Rambo-like from some bushes (complete with AK-47 and red headband). You're right, this is nothing like the ordinary cicada crop.

[Publius]

I remember the 1970 infestation when I was on ROTC maneuvers at Fort Indiantown Gap. Jeez, what a racket! It was deafening.