Never mind one per sq ft - you couldn't see the ground...
Yuk
On 18 May 2011 23:32, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I recall something similar with crickets in San Antonio in 1965. My
> wife and I had driven into town to see a movie. While walking to the
> theater suddenly the ground was crawling with big 1-1/2" crickets...
> about one every square foot. It was almost impossible to walk without
> stepping on them. And, of course, the cars driving down the street were
> making poppety-pop-pop-poppety-pop-pop sounds as they ran over hundreds
> or thousands of them. The next day the newspaper reported numerous
> accidents on I-35 in the center of town as the road got slick as ice
> from all the crushed crickets. We'll always remember walking past a
> high-end furniture store. There were just as many crickets inside as
> outside and clearly visible crawling all over the new furniture in the
> showroom. My wife does not like bugs and sat with her feet up on the
> seat in the theater since the theater also had lots of crickets crawling
> around.
>
> It was my understanding that this was an extremely unusual event but I
> think it has happened more than once. Once was enough for us. :-)
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 5/18/2011 1:05 PM, Jez Cunningham wrote:
> > Too right - the crunch is quite satisfying. Disgusting things. I was
> > living in northern Dallas in '96/7 and they covered the ground 1-2" deep
> one
> > evening. Ugh. No thanks.
> > Wimpy jez
> >
> > On 18 May 2011 18:59, Jim Nichols<jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Bob,
> >>
> >> I went out to get the paper this morning, and found one on the walk,
> >> possibly the same insect. As I stood and looked at it, it crawled
> toward
> >> my
> >> feet. Maybe it wants to be a pet, but I'm not bringing it in the house.
> >>
> >>
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