Steve25 Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 I was 10 years old for the last cicada outbreak and I honestly think it created my phobia of buzzing insects. My parents have sworn I never had a fear like that as a young kid. Ever since then, Summers have been a living nightmare for me. I literally have had anxiety attacks at the end of every winter thinking about the arrival of the warm seasons. Stress is at an all time high all Spring and Summer. Literally stare out the door for several minutes to be sure there's nothing flying around everytime I leave a building or car. It's just, misery. I know I need psychiatric help. I hate it. I'm legitimately mulling over my options of moving out of state in May and June of this Summer to avoid the worst of it. Much easier said than done though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 the 1987 one was awesome 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LP08 Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 41 minutes ago, SomeguyfromTakomaPark said: Man, that sounds fun as hell. I'm not sure my kids (2 and 4) will like it much. I should clarify that I was in Fredericksburg at the time with much more tree coverage than here in Arlington but my wife said they were pretty rambunctious when she was here during the 2004 brood. I know my 6 yr old is plenty excited for them to come (he’s kind of a bug nut). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 18 minutes ago, mappy said: lol they wont be that bad. they will stay in trees and other vegetated areas. but they are very loud. I do recall in 2004 when I was dating a guy who lived in Loudon County, driving down Route 7 near NOVA college and a swarm of them were on the move and flew in the car. Freaked me out. please describe said freak out. full on scream? swerve and slam on the brakes to run out of the vehicle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FXW176 Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 Just now, H2O said: the 1987 one was awesome Yup. Fond memories of that as well. Literally clogged the gutters. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDstorm Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 In case anyone is hungry... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 5 minutes ago, H2O said: please describe said freak out. full on scream? swerve and slam on the brakes to run out of the vehicle? LOL i was the passenger. I believe it was just a girly shriek, as I tried to frantically shoo them out of the open car window. My boyfriend at the time just laughed. i mean, I was laughing too Reminds me of the same shriek I made when Mr Map and I went on one of those drive through safaris and a giraffe stuck its tongue in the car to try and get carrots off my lap. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowenOutThere Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 6 minutes ago, MDstorm said: In case anyone is hungry... My dog wants three of them to hold her over until they emerge. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hank Scorpio Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 1 hour ago, SomeguyfromTakomaPark said: So what's the deal with this? I have never experienced one of these. Are there going to be swarms of these things everywhere? Is my dog going to be jumping up and eating them out of mid air? Am I going to need to use my windshield wipers while driving? Will I need a tennis racket to get to my car lol? There are some good videos on YouTube that'll give you an idea of what to expect. But in general, if you have a lot emerge in your neighborhood, there's a loud and constant background noise and big bugs everywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacChump Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 wish they ate lantern flies 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EHoffman Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 I remember being underwhelmed by the amount in my neighborhood in Rockville in 2004. But there were still a bunch everywhere. Loud as hell too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vastateofmind Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 Those are two great videos that @Hank Scorpio shared, @SomeguyfromTakomaPark -- during this brood's last emergence, I worked at Fort Belvoir where there's wide swaths of mature trees and the thing I remember most about the experience is that underlying, alien trilling sound. At the height of emergence, yes, it was loud -- but I found the noise of the 17-year cicadas was far less grating and almost soothing...as opposed to annual cicadas which can instantly ruin any relaxing downtime in your backyard with their ear-splitting racket in the July-September timeframe. Oh, and if you or your kids are squeamish about molten cicada skins all over the ground, sticking off of trees and buildings, etc., well...you might not like that part of the drill. I kept finding discarded cicada "husks" months after the last emergence. Finally if you have a dog, we found that ours liked to binge on the 17-year cicadas...to the point where he'd eat TOO many, and then we'd occasionally find gelatinous piles of half-digested cicadas in the backyard. Forewarned is forearmed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterWxLuvr Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 Different parts of the country experience different years too. I remember being in W Kentucky in 91 and going 70 on the interstate with the ac going and windows up and radio on you could still hear them easily 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vastateofmind Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 19 minutes ago, wxtrix said: i heard all 3 in my DC neighborhood. i had never lived anywhere there was a brood and i’m so psyched i’ll have the chance to see them again. To your earlier point, and as evidenced in the videos you just shared -- whether crawling or flying, these cicadas are some of the clumsiest insects I've ever encountered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clskinsfan Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 2 hours ago, H2O said: the 1987 one was awesome I was a senior in high school. I seem to struggle remembering anything from that year for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterWxLuvr Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 Damn, Tiger involved in a bad accident. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 lol https://sports.yahoo.com/the-washington-football-team-wont-pick-a-new-name-until-2022-164216540.html The Washington Football Team will go by the name once again in 2021. The team launched a website Tuesday that will chronicle the team's name change. On the front page of the site, it states "the future of Washington Football arrives in 2022." The website also includes a timeline that walks fans through the name-change process. It includes five chapters: Transformation, discovery, insight, creation and execution. Throughout the process, the team will take suggestions from fans. In the discovery chapter, it states those suggestions "will guide the creation of our new identity." There's even an area on the website where fans can submit their idea for the next team name. Fans can write up their vision for the team, and even include images to uniform and logo designs they create. Anything submitted through this system will be owned by the team, so it's possible the organization could choose a fan submission for its next name and design. For now, the team is displaying submitted ideas on its website. Fan-submitted names currently include the Washington Memorials, Washington Rhinos, Washington Justice and many, many others. Some of those, like the Justice, include pictures featuring new uniform and logo designs. Washington changed nickname in July In July, the team announced it would change its name to the Washington Football Team for the 2020 season. At the time, the team announced that would be a temporary nickname. Since then, a number of suggestions have been thrown out by fans, including Redtails and Warriors. Those names could be an issue, as they've been trademarked by a man in Virginia. It's possible team owner Dan Snyder can work out a deal with the trademark holder and go with one of those names, though it appears the team is willing to consider all options at the moment. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 I absolutely love that someone trademarked those names to screw Snyder over. I will happily cheer on the WTF until another name is found. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 21 minutes ago, mappy said: I absolutely love that someone trademarked those names to screw Snyder over. I will happily cheer on the WTF until another name is found. I’m actually really good with the current name. If they keep it I wouldn’t complain. Hail to the WTFs! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dailylurker Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 1 hour ago, vastateofmind said: To your earlier point, and as evidenced in the videos you just shared -- whether crawling or flying, these cicadas are some of the clumsiest insects I've ever encountered. The only time every critter in the forest is full to the point they can't eat anymore. It's also giving the forest a big dose of fertilizer. It's really amazing if you think about it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterWxLuvr Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 The name now is perfect. Totally unique. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAPE Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 HHH 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vastateofmind Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 Three berry varieties. Hazelnuts. Smoothie-ness. I'm trying to reconcile those three inside one beer can and just can't imagine it. I'll bet it's interesting though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nw baltimore wx Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 10 hours ago, WxUSAF said: FYI...vaccine appointments at M&T Bank stadium available now. Hurry. covidvax.maryland.gov. Was able to schedule 3 folks we know over 65 already. We were able to score three out of four for our parents. We could have gone four for four but my 90 year dad old doesn’t want the vaccine. Who am I to argue with a guy that smoked two packs of unfiltered Lucky Strikes for 60 years? 5 hours ago, mappy said: LOL i was the passenger. I believe it was just a girly shriek, as I tried to frantically shoo them out of the open car window. My boyfriend at the time just laughed. i mean, I was laughing too Reminds me of the same shriek I made when Mr Map and I went on one of those drive through safaris and a giraffe stuck its tongue in the car to try and get carrots off my lap. If you want to have some fun with the 17 year cicadas, trick a buddy into helping you do a fictitious project that involves a circular saw. I swear they will swarm the sound like it’s the mother of all cicadas. I thought the guy working on my house 17 years ago was going to kill himself swinging the circular saw around in the air to keep the bugs off of him. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAPE Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 37 minutes ago, vastateofmind said: Three berry varieties. Hazelnuts. Smoothie-ness. I'm trying to reconcile those three inside one beer can and just can't imagine it. I'll bet it's interesting though... It seems a like an odd combo of flavors, but it all works. Very good. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North Balti Zen Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 Not a Washington football team fan, but that name should absolutely stay locked in as it currently is. Unique and cool. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North Balti Zen Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 The Steelers have apparently decided to bring the corpse of Roethlisberger back for 2021. So, that's pretty great news for a lot of the other AFC north team fans on this board... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanTheMan Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 Just now, North Balti Zen said: The Steelers have apparently decided to bring the corpse of Roethlisberger back for 2021. So, that's pretty great news for a lot of the other AFC north team fans on this board... He will still find a way to beat the Browns twice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Pimpernel Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 3 hours ago, wxtrix said: Washington Team Football with really generic fan merchandise. Haha! Reminds me of the old generic products years ago, packaged in white with black lettering. You'd get things labeled like "Beer" and such. I even as a joke got someone a generic postcard...and yup, it was all white with the word "Postcard" written on it!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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