Maryland’s 17 year hatching happened a few years ago. It was terrible. As soon as the sun came up the noise would wake me up in my apartment. Maddening.
I lived in Maryland once and remember the cicadas. They say they taste like asperagus. My kids used to wack ‘em with a tennis racket.
I live in the midwest within 300 miles of Chicago and the 17 year locust cycle occurred just 3 years ago or so here. If you live through it, it is not something you forget. It's noisy, the dead carcuses stink of rotting flesh, your house is covered with the larvae shell, you have gizzard goop on your windshield the size of a baseball. It's just nasty.
Makes me wonder how local the cycle is...