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17 Year Cicadas???? PLEASE GOD NO

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  • 17 Year Cicadas???? PLEASE GOD NO

    I am just hearing about this. This is their year to hatch? I'm seeing words like "infestation" and "will hit you in the face" and "I once saw them inches deep in the street" and "you can't go outside". Oh god, please no. Do any of you have experience with this and if so, how bad is it? I just...I can't...
    Wife, support system, and partner-in-crime to PGY-3 (IM) and spoiler of our 11 y/o yellow lab

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    I think it was really bad 2 years ago here. All bugs, all kinds, all the time - especially the cicadas and June bugs.
    Ick ick ick.

    This year, I'm ready - I have the hens.


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    Wife to Family Medicine attending, Mom to DS1 and DS2
    Professional Relocation Specialist &
    "The Official IMSN Enabler"

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    • #3
      Do they eat/destroy plants at all? All I've got by way of defense is a yellow lab who feels like it would be too much work to get out of his bed if I were being stabbed to death (just a hunch, but I feel this may be accurate).

      I have a lime tree named Hector that I have pulled through the winter and if he dies...I swear to god.
      Wife, support system, and partner-in-crime to PGY-3 (IM) and spoiler of our 11 y/o yellow lab

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      • #4
        I actually like the cicada sound
        Married to a newly minted Pediatric Rad, momma to a sweet girl and a bunch of (mostly) cute boy monsters.



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        • #5
          Originally posted by SoonerTexan View Post
          I actually like the cicada sound
          I do, too! However, I'm a total wuss when it comes to bugs, so I can't think about what makes the noise or I start feeling itchy. I'm really hoping I'm too far north, or south, or anything and will be spared the invasion.

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          • #6
            I definitely do not mind the sound, I do become terrified at the thought of millions of them flying around at all hours of the day/night and needing windshield wipers to battle them as I drive. Or getting tangled in my hair. I think I might be freaking myself out based off of stories my old boss told me about fish flies that came when she grew up in Michigan.
            Wife, support system, and partner-in-crime to PGY-3 (IM) and spoiler of our 11 y/o yellow lab

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Cassy
              Me too. I guess because one of the earliest summers I can remember was a year for cicadas and I equate the buzzing with "yayyy summer!"
              Ditto!
              Tara
              Married 20 years to MD/PhD in year 3 of MFM fellowship. SAHM to five wonderful children (#6 due in August), a sweet GSD named Bella, a black lab named Toby, and 1 guinea pig.

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              • #8
                I think I read it is to be in the new jersey area. I know IN had it a few years back. We have them every summer here in the valley...but not billions all in a short time span!!! Crazy but facinating!

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                • #9
                  Ugh, I remember the 17-year cicadas from when I was in grade school. They were DISGUSTING.

                  I hate the way they will just fly straight into you.

                  And the ones we had would swarm when you had he lawnmower running (because I guess the sound is similar to their buzz) which of course was my chore every week. Ugh ugh ugh. Disgusting.
                  - Eric: Husband to PGY3 Neuro

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                  • #10
                    Lol...I can just picture the erratic mowing patterns from all of your bobbing& weaving, to stear clear of the cicadas!
                    Last edited by Momo; 04-13-2013, 02:28 PM.

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                    • #11
                      OMG, the cicadas were here the summer we moved. My kids FREAKED about the swarms of cicadas. I'm someone who isn't usually bothered by creepy crawlies but all those dead carcasses were a bit unpleasant. ::
                      In my dreams I run with the Kenyans.

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                      • #12
                        yeah I heard on the radio it was supposed to hit here. Its going to be an interesting summer.
                        -L.Jane

                        Wife to a wonderful General Surgeon
                        Mom to a sweet but stubborn boy born April 2014
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                        • #13
                          Ours were bad enough last year, O hope we don't get them again.
                          Wife to NSG out of training, mom to 2, 10 & 8, and a beagle with wings.

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                          • #14
                            Yet another reason I flove living in the PNW. We don't have any creepy crawlies.
                            Married to a peds surgeon attending

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                            • #15
                              AHHHHHHHHH Yes, we had them here in Indiana several years ago, and I've been worried recently because I can't remember when it's coming again. I didn't see them inches deep in the streets, but it was awful. I couldn't drive with the windows down because every time I did they would fly into my car. It was terrible for me, but I am a huge bug hater.
                              -Mommy, FM wife, Disney Planner and Hoosier

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