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[sin city]

my daughter is going to freak the fuck out. Not looking forward to it at all.

[TJENZ]

I can't wait to walk down the street with those things crunching under my feet

[crease]

someone tell me when it's ok to stop being afraid, mmkay?

[Rob Gordon]

Oh man, is it this year already?! Cool, my son will think it's awesome.

[b17yoe]

It really seems like this happens more often than every 17 years.

[TJENZ]

someone tell me when it's ok to stop being afraid, mmkay?

not until we defeat all the terrorists, so it'll be awhile

[raumschwein]

Cicadas are gross.

[Tracy Jacks]

Oh man, is it this year already?! Cool, my son will think it's awesome.

It really seems like this happens more often than every 17 years.

There are twelve 17-year broods and three 13-year broods that happen in different years and different areas of the country. So pretty much every year you hear some talk of cicadas happening somewhere.

But this is the big year for the brood located in the Chicago area.

It's very exciting. I wasn't in the area 17 years ago, but I have strong memories of the cicadas 34 years ago when I was a kid.

This page has a nice chart (about a middle of the way through) showing what year each brood appears and where that brood is located.

[Artem]

what do you call these:

[Hewletts Daughter]

one of my fondest/least fond memories growing up was going to Great America during the dreaded cicada invasion of 1990-something. I remember walking around and hearing those damned things chirping everywhere and falling out of trees. It was kind of cool until I realized they were falling in my nachos and shit. I was forever scarred.

[TJENZ]

cicada nachos, brilliant!

[Hewletts Daughter]

they were crunchier than normal

[b17yoe]

Oh man, is it this year already?! Cool, my son will think it's awesome.

It really seems like this happens more often than every 17 years.

There are fourteen 17-year broods and three 13-year broods that happen in different years and different areas of the country. So pretty much every year you hear some talk of cicadas happening somewhere.

But this is the big year for the brood located in the Chicago area.

Ahh... that would explain it. I was in Ohio for the 2004 brood. Thanks for dropping the knowledge.

[Rad Monkey]

People actually eat cicadas, lots of protein or so I hear.

[no magnets]

i was in PA for the 2004 one, but maybe i was out of town during their jaunt to the surface because i don't remember them at all. and the hype was outstanding. i do, though, remember the 1987 one.

[bleach]

so if a group of dudes were planning on robbing banks while wearing cicada outfits this would be the year to do it right?

[dirty hippie]

yeah, but they'd be a bunch of fucking posers.

you gotta roll with the monarch baby.

[raumschwein]

what do you call these:

Revolting.

[velocity]

what do you call these:

Revolting.

...sez the man whose avatar is the King of Creepy...

edit: Jebus, another good reason to live in the far west. No broods in CA, OR or WA!

[ladytron: the tv series]

awesome. i remember the last time. i associate them with the Downers Grove Swim and Racquet Club for some reason.