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17 Things You Learn About 17 Year Cicadas.

The Cicada Apocalypse is FINALLY over, and this is what we learned.

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17 Things You Learn About 17 Year Cicadas.


1. You Learn that for Anyone not in the Cicada War Zone, you seem Crazy.

2. Cicadas Like Noise (Don’t Mow the Lawn During the Day, they will Attack.)

3. Cicadas Make a Lot of Noise.

4. Cicadas are Ditzy (They Run into Everything.)

5. Cicadas are Clingy (They like to Attach themselves to People’s Clothes, Fingers, Hair, Bags…)

6. Cicadas Help you to Improve your Duck and Cover Techniques.

7. Cicadas Take Over the Outdoors (Inside Becomes your new Best Friend.)

8. There are a LOT of Cicadas (Cicada Graveyard has become a Common phrase.)

9. Forget What I said Before, Nowhere is Safe (Cicadas are good at slipping indoors.)

10. Cicadas Apparently make good Cookies.

11. Windows Down is a No Go unless you want Another Passenger.

12. You Know when you Leave the War Zone (no one has ever appreciated the sound of silence as much.)

13. You are Scarred for Life (or just a few more months) (everything that moves or makes Noise your brain will forever react as though a Cicada is around.)

14. You will plan your Next Vacation around where the Cicadas are, or Rather where they are NOT; there will be no Cicada Cookies or the Song of the Critter in the Vacation agenda.

15. You Learn to get Stuff Done at Night (at least they sleep.)

16. You Learn how looooooong Two More Weeks can Seem.

17. You Learn to Appreciate the Outdoors so much more.

Now that the Cicadas are gone, being outside has become so much nicer and less terrifying. If you are lucky enough to this this list is really weird and pointless, stay in your cicada free zone, you’ll thank me later.

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