Originally published at: Please stop calling 911 about cicadas | Boing Boing
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In the Spring of 2004, I moved from Northern California to Kansas City. California does not have cicadas. Initially, I too thought I was hearing alarms going off.
Though it wasn’t until 2011 or so when I experienced a full on brood. It was annoying when they’d fly at me on the patio. Luckily, my cat knew exactly what to do with them! LOL
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Right this very moment my neighborhood sounds a lot like this:
It’s crazy! And the sound shifts based on different concentrations and where the sun is shining between clouds.
My wife was taking a meeting out back and had to come back inside just now because the critters were landing on her head and crawling across her computer screen.
Best invasion ever!
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I always compared it to being in the flight path of jets, especially that sensation when you open a door and get bombarded by a wall of sound.
Wait until they see the utter carnage at the end when their car crushes thousands of dead carcasses while driving down the road; much like the skulls scene in Terminator.
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I grew up in Oklahoma and do not miss these critters one bit. Come to think of it, there isn’t really anything that miss about Oklahoma.
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It sounds similar enough to me to phasers that I was wondering if Star Fleet war veterans would leave the planet every seventeen years to avoid PTSD.
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I grew up in Kansas, and I do miss them. To me, it’s a comforting sound, sort of like a hug from my mom.
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You have six legs don’t you? 
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For others like me that have never heard cicadas
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Take those sounds and turn them up to somewhere around 80 or 100 decibels for like 6 to 8 hrs on end and that’s what it’s like.
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Oh I am I also added some beats its like an EDM show now 
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With so many false calls about alarms it is likely that actual alarms will be ignored. This is a great opportunity for burglars.
That sounds like how I feel about the creek that runs through my backyard. It is so soothing. Enjoy your cicadas while they last 
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As bugs go, I find them cute and harmless. They buzz around like they’re drunk and when they knock into it’s like “Oh, man, sorry, dude,” in a bar, and then kind of buzz away. Those red eyes indicate a serious binge.
And I like to think of all the dead ones as just stoned to oblivion. Of course when there are trillions of dead ones it is a mess.
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I love it! 
They came out just this past week in Louisville. I just took a walk in the park about a half hour ago and the trees are just a screamin! It’s deafening! First time seeing anything like this as I grew up too far North. Here’s one that hitchhiked on plant that I recently bought from a nursery:
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Pennsylvania, in my case, and I feel exactly the same. It’s the sound of summer to me.
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Here ya go.
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Only call 911 if they unite, transformer-style:
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Those are awesome!
I can contribute at least five or six bushels of shells…
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