[kevkrom]

We get cicadas every year. What is a few billion more?

I've never been through this myself, but the locals here in the DC area (Brood X "ground-zro") have been telling me that this is nothing like the cicadas you seem every other year. "A plague of Biblical proportions" is the most common description I hear...

[kenth]

We get them every year in the South too, but not like this. I think this is going to be a doozy.

We live amongst the forests of N. Georgia. Here's what we woke up to yesterday. The day before was normal, now we have a constant whiny buzzing in the background.

Cicadas in the background

[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.