re: Tell me your Cicada stories...

I was living in Virginia when the 17 year ones came. They were everywhere. You couldn't walk anywhere without stepping on them in some places. The sound they made was resounding, kind of like mosquitos in the marsh but 10x louder.

17 years later, after almost two decades of heavy real estate development, there were very few. I'd see one on the ground here and there, but not often and I couldn't hear them at all.