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You think 2020 is tough? Just wait until next year when the cicadas return!

Terry Meiners shares water with his long lost friend the cicada of 1987

Australian fires started 2020. Then came the threat of nuclear war with Iran. Chinese military jets have been buzzing American warships. Oh, and then there’s that little COVID-19 pandemic with an as yet uncertain outcome.

Next year could be even stranger when the 17 year cycle for cicadas delivers billions of the buzzing bug-eyed pests in a Biblical plague of dead baby beastly bodies.

I made the most of it two cycles ago when Sammy the Cicada and I spent a fabulous few hours together.

2020 is all about isolation. 2021 will be a noisy, crowded infestation.

Pick your poison. It’s going to be a bumpy decade.

terrymeiners
dad. husband. observer. media personality. pathological flyer.
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