Cicadageddon
Last night, we all got home from the Y and heard a very loud rustling from underneath the mulch in our front yard planters. It sounded like an effect from some sort of sci-fi alien thriller.
It was, we soon discovered, the sound of thousands of cicadas, emerging from underground.
Hubs ran and grabbed a flashlight so that we could see for ourselves exactly what was happening. When he came back out, he shined the beam onto a tree in our front yard.
Its trunk was completely covered in cicadas, slowly climbing up into the tree’s branches. It was so gross, I had to video it.
Tomorrow is supposed to be C-Day here in Nashville. Cicada Day. Their numbers will peak, and if last night was any indication, it is wise for all of us to be very, very afraid.
It also is starting to seem like more than coincidence that tomorrow is the Day the World is Scheduled to End.
I’d say this cicada thing definitely qualifies as a plague.
Wouldn’t you?
Image via Stephen Drake/Flickr
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Last year I remember the noise from these things was deafening and
people said oh that is just the cicadas they are bad this year. Well I
just watched the news and there is supposed to be billions of them this
year and the largest swarm ever. I am afraid,…very afraid LOL. You should have posted the video…I am sure that was interesting