I was quitely dusting blinds when I thought I saw someone move across the foyer. I knew
(e:terry) was outside mowing the front lawn. The door was open, but he was right out there. I decided it was nothing and went back to dusting. Then I see someone pickup my laptop up off the the dining room table.
I confront the guy and he says his friend told him to pick it a laptop. He thought it was his friends house that looks just like this. Sure. there isn't even another house in buffalo that looks like this. So I tell him to get out and yell to
(e:terry) who calls the police but the guy starts running. So I chase him to an abandoned lot between the "multicultural potential center" and a residential lot. He kept going into the field but I got weirded out being there by myself and called the police.
They arrived within two minutes but he had gotten away. I am so curious if he got anything else. Luckily, I had just cleaned out downstairs for a party a friend of ours is throwing here tonight, so I think there was nothing else to steal.
I wonder if he lives in the alley next to the dumpster. There were a lot of clothes and a shopping cart there.
Oh well.. I will miss them..
they are kind of neat!
Exactly, they haven't been around in 17 years because that's their incubation period, as I understand it. This year there are supposed to be a gazillion coming out at one, from NY to North Carolina. It's been all over the news.
What I remember is that Brood 2 follows the Hudson Valley up to around Albany. Here's a map of where Brood 2 is expected to emerge :::link::: I think Rochester gets a different brood. Since you grew up around here, if you tell me that you seen 'em, I believe you.
We have cicadas I have seen them but maybe not the 17 year ones.
If memory serves, I remember reading that Western New York doesn't have cicadas.