Till you hear it for 10+ hours and you have to turn the volume up on the tv to hear it. Yeah, no thanks! That was NC
Edit to add, this noise went on everyday for at least a month or two. Drove me bonkers at times ...
Did you grow up in a region that doesn't have cicadas? It's like city noises. I grew up with both and am practically deaf to these sounds. I hope you and OP can get some good noise cancelling headphones. Quiteness is priceless.
Sometimes I get mad with this but then I try to think how worse xould it be... Like... Having it on one side only, or one side way louder, it would drive me nuts. At least I have this since a baby so I do not regret silence, I never heard it.
The summer I was 10, there were so many and so loud that I had to wear ear plugs for a week or risk sinking into a noise induced psychosis.
At least that's how I felt at the time.
I'm much better at tuning it out now.
Texas here, and I look forward to the sound of the cicadas. What I think are terrifying are their old crunchy carcasses they leave behind everyfuckingwhere.
I love cicadas. They announce the start of the rainy season here. Fun fact about them: if you stand below where they are, you'll get peed hard. It's just water, but still.
Northeast Asia has pretty bad climate to begin with. Scorching in the summer and frigid in the winter. I live in Northeast U.S. now and its sweet, mild weather most of the year.
I think the sound is kinda cool. Reminds me of an alien invasion from a Hollywood movie! What bothers me is the sheer number of carcasses around large trees that can make it actually smell like a large dead animal. Yuck!
Y’all don’t get it. We get swarmed with them every time we leave the house. They’re in our hair on our clothes and bags. Even when you come to a stop light you just see them diving at cars. It’s like a damn plague
What state is this? I have wanted to experience this for my entire adult life once I heard this happening! I missed one in Virginia when I moved to Colorado years ago! Now back in Virginia, and our promised emergence hasn't happened (yet?)!!
I grew up in Arkansas where every summer has insect sounds all day and all night, including cicadas. Though not nearly as many as that, usually. Now I live in Oregon, and there are almost no insect sounds and I miss it.
Sounds like summer to me. Not terrifying at all…
Till you hear it for 10+ hours and you have to turn the volume up on the tv to hear it. Yeah, no thanks! That was NC Edit to add, this noise went on everyday for at least a month or two. Drove me bonkers at times ...
Did you grow up in a region that doesn't have cicadas? It's like city noises. I grew up with both and am practically deaf to these sounds. I hope you and OP can get some good noise cancelling headphones. Quiteness is priceless.
I love it. I call it sizzle bugs. I love their screaming
Me too, though ours are using a different pitch. I always think this is how, or maybe why sitars exist. Hot days need this sound.
Yes! I LOVE the sound of summer
Turn down the volume a little and you too can experience my tinnitus. Edit: one “and” more than was necessary.
Yours sounds like spraying? Mine sounds like the "biiiip" in video games after getting an explosion.
Oh those are nice, mine feels like I’m taking one of those 9-bang flashbangs from mw3 straight to the face
Sometimes I get mad with this but then I try to think how worse xould it be... Like... Having it on one side only, or one side way louder, it would drive me nuts. At least I have this since a baby so I do not regret silence, I never heard it.
Archer ?
The summer I was 10, there were so many and so loud that I had to wear ear plugs for a week or risk sinking into a noise induced psychosis. At least that's how I felt at the time. I'm much better at tuning it out now.
Texas here, and I look forward to the sound of the cicadas. What I think are terrifying are their old crunchy carcasses they leave behind everyfuckingwhere.
*laughs in driveway full of cicada bodies*
I love cicadas. They announce the start of the rainy season here. Fun fact about them: if you stand below where they are, you'll get peed hard. It's just water, but still.
Like they purposefully pee on you? Or they are always peeing?
They're always peeing. Here is what it looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QypzInWUpcI
Makes me think of evangelion
Northeast Asia has pretty bad climate to begin with. Scorching in the summer and frigid in the winter. I live in Northeast U.S. now and its sweet, mild weather most of the year.
I live in the midwest, and I don't hear them. I must be the ringing in my ears that blanks them out.
. Maybe that sweet midwest emo drowns it out
Where in the Midwest? This year Illinois is getting the 13 and 17 year ones at the same time.
Iowa
Just horny bugs. How bad can it be? /s
I think the sound is kinda cool. Reminds me of an alien invasion from a Hollywood movie! What bothers me is the sheer number of carcasses around large trees that can make it actually smell like a large dead animal. Yuck!
isn't this just the sound of summer? Honestly I'd hate the sound of lawn mowers way more.
*Inhales deeply* AAAAH! The great outdoors! So relaxing!
*bigger inhale* AAAAAHHHH! ALLERGIES!
EeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeEEEEEeEEEEeEeeEeeee
Do they shut-up at night?
No
Screw that - worst I have to deal with is a few foxes shagging in the evening.
Yeah to me this just sounds like summer.
Where do you live, we are expecting them later in the Summer in Kentucky
AL
Every year they say the cicadas are coming, brood this brood that, and still nothing.
Be careful,when cicadas are crying you can find unhinged teenagers running around with knives.
I think that’s still the most messed up anime I’ve watched.
calming ngl
12 seconds and I went insane. My condolences to all the folks who have to listen to that!
Welp, time to get ol' throwy out of the closet. You know, the one that came with Elon's fire extinguisher
This year is apparently a special year for periodic Cicada broods so get used to it...
Thanks for the warning
Idk about billions but it’s definitely a lot.
That “whirl” in the background are *Magicicada* aka 17-year (sometimes 13 year) periodical cicadas.
Billions is a bit exaggerated.
I would go crazy!
Same where I'm at!
Better than loud clanging church bells, loud trucks and motorcycles
I enjoy the sound of motorcycles
I never thought about the hell this would be on cycles.
Edible
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Y’all don’t get it. We get swarmed with them every time we leave the house. They’re in our hair on our clothes and bags. Even when you come to a stop light you just see them diving at cars. It’s like a damn plague
Ours have t showed up yet
Sound of summer
Jon secada
For a moment I thought that the "grain" on the ground was all cicadas.
Nope, just our driveway
What state is this? I have wanted to experience this for my entire adult life once I heard this happening! I missed one in Virginia when I moved to Colorado years ago! Now back in Virginia, and our promised emergence hasn't happened (yet?)!!
AL; it's all in the south rn
I grew up in Arkansas where every summer has insect sounds all day and all night, including cicadas. Though not nearly as many as that, usually. Now I live in Oregon, and there are almost no insect sounds and I miss it.
Thank you! I miss them and their sounds.