[AT] O/T 17 year locusts

[charlie hill]

Hi John,  I just got back from spending the weekend in Hagerstown, MD and
the surrounding area.  Didn't see or hear a single one.  Since I was only
there for 2 days I was kind of disappointed.  You are right about the cooler
weather.  56 was the high in Hagerstown yesterday.  I thought I would freeze
after several weeks in the 90's here in NC.


Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Cullom" <jhcullom at adelphia.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 6:32 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] O/T 17 year locusts


> They've been around Baltimore/Washington for the last month. Thousands of
> 'em, & you can hear them from inside your car traveling down the highway
> with the windows up & the radio on. They make 2 kinds of noise, the
familiar
> hissing sound & also a kind of high pitched whistle, like in the old
> Japanese monster movies with the overgrown bugs. But now with the cooler
> weather we've been having, they've pretty much died off. Haven't had a one
> up here in Westminster though. I work in the fire department in Baltimore
> County, & we've had 2 car wrecks blamed on the cicadas flying in &
startling
> the drivers.
> John
> Westminster, Md.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Cecil E Monson" <cmonson at hvc.rr.com>
> > I watched a little golf this afternoon which was being played
> > somewhere in Ohio. The noise from the 17 year locusts - cicadas - made
> > it difficult to hear what was being said sometimes. I guess this is
> > the year for these things to show up but we don't have any yet. Does
> > anyone anywhere but Ohio already have them up and making noise?  Or
> > are they only by that one golf course and nowhere else?  ;-)
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