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Cicadas are so noisy in South Carolina that residents are calling the police
- rqtwteye 3y agoReminds me of Angkor Wat in Cambodia when I visited. There was a constant, really load sound like singing bowls everywhere. First I thought it's some Buddhist monks but then I realized it was cicadas. It was really bizarre.
- rqtwteye 3y agoFound a video with the sound. It sounds cleaner live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muBnqHqOrG0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muBnqHqOrG0
- kayodelycaon 3y agoNature can be extremely loud. I’ve been in places where get insects louder than the freight trains going by the other side of a fence. Some people are really clueless. I had a neighbor who didn't realize dry leaves could burn. It would be funny if they hadn’t made a really good attempt to burn their entire lot to the ground.
- Loughla 3y agoI live in a VERY rural part of the US. When I was in college, a friend from NYC came to stay with us for a week in the summer. He brought a noise machine because he figured it would be too quiet. He ended up buying ear plugs because the bugs and birds were so loud at night. And he grew to hate whippoorwills. I enjoyed that quite thoroughly.
- HeyLaughingBoy 3y agoI live in a rural area. In summer I typically sleep with the windows open for fresh air at night... then wake up at dawn to close them because the birds are loud as hell.
- Loughla 3y agoMy parents have a wren that nests outside their bedroom. He has decided that the best way to sing is hanging off the window screen and pointed into the bedroom. It's amazingly loud as the sun comes up. I feed him because it's also hilarious.
- SamPatt 3y agoOwls can be surprisingly loud, and annoyingly persistent.
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 3y agoI get barred owls around my place and they give me the creeps. Something in my subconscious knows they would eat me if they could
- mentalpiracy 3y agoWe have a m-f pair of great horned owls that live in the trees behind the house. Wild how loud they get at night as they’re patrolling the neighborhood together.
- smallerfish 3y agoTry living in a forest that has howler monkeys. You really can't sleep through it.
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- markdown 3y ago> He brought a noise machine Is that slang for a radio?
- SAI_Peregrinus 3y agoNo, a white noise generator. May also generate other sounds, e.g. babbling brooks, rain on a roof, or other similar things.
- markdown 3y agoOh I see. There are thousands of youtube videos for that.
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- jraines 3y agoI grew up in the country & enjoy the sounds mostly. Except the time I was camping and there was a whippoorwill nearby; I was just about crazy by the time the sun came up
- RetroTechie 3y ago> Nature can be extremely loud. And that's kinda comforting. "Extremely loud" is the exception anyway. It's when nature falls silent, or people-generated noise drowns out everything else, that's distressing (or depressing).
- fortran77 3y agoI'm disappointed that TFA has no recording of the noise!
- senectus1 3y agoyeah, we get the occasional cicada down here in Australia.. but that sounds like its a force of nature sort of noise level.
- bigiain 3y agoSee my other comment here. We 100% get "force of nature loud" cicadas.
- lightedman 3y agoIn Tennessee, we've had cicadas so loud that dogs and cats were crying in pain. Force of nature is correct terminology, here.
- an_aparallel 3y ago@ work in the summer months when i go for my daily walk at work - i frequently block my ears from the sound. I live and work in Western Sydney.
- defrost 3y agoThe cicada recordings I heard were steady loud buzzing | clicking white noise with an underlying pulse. I can imagine that getting annoying. Volume wise, it seems decibels below daily flocks of thousands of Sulpher Crested Cockatoos rap battling flocks of Corellas which we get in this part (any parts) of Australia. For interest: Individual Australian parrot calls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF8Nr_as0CI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF8Nr_as0CI Now, multiply by a thousand and put them in trees outside your house.
- batch12 3y ago1:05 - 1:20 is what they sound like here https://youtu.be/sh1mfzdWOuo?feature=shared https://youtu.be/sh1mfzdWOuo?feature=shared
- wil421 3y agoThey are loud but always present in Atlanta. In more rural areas it can be deafening. My kids were asking what the loud noise was at a rest stop last year. They fly all over my backyard and leave their shells as they grow. Their flying alone is pretty loud.
- binarymax 3y agoThis time of year, every year, the chattiest f*in birds start chatting outside my bedroom window at 4am. So I’ve just resigned to go to sleep earlier. Well, look at the time I’m off to bed!
- dgllghr 3y agoWe had this exact problem outside my son's room. Birds would wake him up at 5 am. I put one of those fake plastic owls with a bobble head outside his window. Problem solved.
- jldugger 3y agoYea, you know your Civ addiction is bad when you hear the 4am birds. And good luck getting to sleep through them.
- hi-v-rocknroll 3y agoSouthern newbies, I guess. I remember my grandmother's magnolia and pecan trees in N TX summer some years, the cicadas were deafening. Here in an urban-residential boundary area, I have the problem of large crickets getting into my apartment (they're fairly quiet) and downstairs dogs so loud I can hear them barking at all hours day and night through a supposedly solid concrete floor. Of the latter, of course the immature kidult neighbors don't notice and don't care how rude they are having untrained, inappropriate breeds of dogs (plural). They just let their dogs relieve themselves immediately outside the front door of the building.
- lukevp 3y agoSounds like you live in San Marcos, TX. Lots of crickets there and college kids.
- hi-v-rocknroll 3y agoClose. ATX near downtown in a slapped-together gentrification high-rise. :D My mom lives around the corner from there though. I was sad when the geniuses at Earth Burger decided to reimagine themselves as a salad kale? burger? bowl shop. The owner has some absurd grand vision but fails to realize Texas fast food requires a giant sign visible from I-35, consistency, and listening to customers.
- amatecha 3y agoYeah, sharing a building with strangers... never again, as long as I can afford not to. It had its upsides, but wow. The amount of just ever-present noise was such a harm to my psyche, like some kind of slow torture over years. No matter what you do, all windows and doors closed. Just so not for me.
- hi-v-rocknroll 3y agoI purposely went from an apartment complex with ~30% Airbnbs, ~40% alcoholic rager kidult residents, and ~10% people who let their dogs relieve themselves in the hallways and in the pool to the end of the hall on the top floor with concrete floors of a new building. Apparently, that was insufficient. Perhaps leased apartments in the style of invite-only co-op NYC buildings where the security guards actually lift a finger now and then would be an improvement. At least it won't be my problem anymore in about 2 months because I'm out of this popcorn stand.
- bigiain 3y agoOne of my motorcycles is quite loud. (A Ducati Monster 900 with unbaffled Stainture pipes and a chopped airbox.) There's a stretch of road through a valley in the bush (an Australian term kinda like forest) that I used to ride daily for about 20 years - Wakehurst Parkway between Frenchs Forest and Narrabeen, for anyone familiar with Sydneys Northern Beaches. In a "good" cicada year, they can be loud enough for a long stretch of that road that they completely overwhelm the engine noise of that bike. Really really loud. Loud enough that I'd often drop two or three gears and pin the throttle wide open just to amaze myself that a bunch of insects were making more noise than my Ducati.
- adt 3y agoLegend. Tipped my VTR250 around there. :-/
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 3y agoWow gross
- jader201 3y agoThe professor in the video is quite wholesome. Seems to love nature and has a genuinely positive attitude. And also has me convinced that getting spraying in the face with cicada pee is no big deal.
- whoopdedo 3y agoThis is a double-brood year. But also, one of these broods is infected with the Massospora fungus. It's one of those mind-control parasites that makes the males "hyper-sexual"[1]. The zombie cicadas are driven to mate more aggressively, but their genitals have been replaced with the fungus so all they do is spread spores. [1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cicadas-zombies-hyper-sexual-sexually-transmitted-fungus-expected-to-emerge-this-year-massospora-cicadina/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cicadas-zombies-hyper-sexual-se...
- vundercind 3y agoBeing any but a handful of species is basically living in an actual horror movie 100% of the time. Those few, just part-time.
- giantg2 3y agoSo many jokes... must resists. It's interesting though. The spores can be viable for years and it's thought they are transmitted via the soil. So why doesn't this spread to other years or even the annual broods?
- ethbr1 3y ago>> But, he said, less than 5% of cicadas are infected with the fungus and researchers have yet to observe any impact on other wildlife.
- Izkata 3y agoApparently cicadas emerge right around when the ground temperature hits 65 degrees. I found this site to keep an eye on it, kinda wondering how close it'll be: https://www.greencastonline.com/tools/soil-temperature https://www.greencastonline.com/tools/soil-temperature A week ago over here the air temperature spiked to about 80 but apparently the ground temperature only hit 63.
- thrdbndndn 3y agoFrom a place where cicada are common, can confirm they're loud and the noise can easily drown out normal conversations if you're outside. Also here, I don't think cicadas are "periodical". It's an every year occurrence. It seems to be different in the US?
- giantg2 3y agoThere are some annual ones, but they are few in numbers. The periodic ones are on a different level.
- mlinhares 3y agoGuessing you're either in or close to the tropics then.
- smallerfish 3y agoAm also in the tropics. For about two weeks in late Jan we have whistling cicadas - both loud and shrill. Regular cicadas no longer bother me, but the whistlers are straight out of a deep circle of hell.
- olliej 3y agoThere are multiple species and broods of periodical cicadas - they're literally called that - it's really quite an interesting phenomena, but they have evolved life cycles in that are prime numbered years long, and frequently relatively prime as well. The extended life cycle means that no predator can rely on a single brood, and the relatively prime brood lengths of different groups mean they don't overlap sufficiently frequently for predators to manage by feeding on different broods each year. Then on a year when they do emerge they emerge in colossal numbers, far more than you experience with annual cicadas, and there's also nowhere near enough predation to meaningfully dent their numbers. This years exciting horror is the result of a bunch of things, summarized from the University of Connecticut [https://cicadas.uconn.edu https://cicadas.uconn.edu]: * For the first time since 2015 a 13-year brood will emerge in the same year as a 17-year brood. * For the first time since 1998 adjacent 13-and 17-year broods will emerge in the same year. * For the first time since 1803 Brood XIX and XIII will co-emerge. This particular event won't be one of the all encompassing horrors though as apparently the range of the overlap is relatively small.
- lapcat 3y agoDid anyone live in the Chicago area 17 years ago? I'm wondering how loud the cicadas will be there.
- anigbrowl 3y agoOff-topic: the video stops playing when you scroll away...eg to the bottom of the page. Infuriating behavior, web designers need to stop hijacking.
- amatecha 3y agoYeah, news sites are especially bad for this. The worst are the ones that start playing some other video (with ads) that is pinned to the side of the page as you scroll. Truly sociopathic design IMO.
- anigbrowl 3y agoHave you noticed how they put the close button for those videos on the bottom right instead of the top right, so you get lost for a second or two. I have a low opinion of the engineers who participate in making things worse for everyone.
- benknight87 3y agoThere was a really good Radiolab episode about cicadas and their bizarre 17 year cycles. https://radiolab.org/podcast/279210-cicadas-are-coming https://radiolab.org/podcast/279210-cicadas-are-coming
- cvoss 3y agoEven the ordinary annual cicadas in my area are on their own a force to be reckoned with. They don't peak until late summer though. Because of that, and the fact that as a kid it meant going back to school, the sound still makes me sad and melancholy and reflective about whether I achieved what I wanted with my summer time before it's gone. It's amazing how powerful that sound is. For a while I've been wanting to write a southern gothic short story about the sound and the sadness and/or insanity that it drives people to.
- batch12 3y agoDo it. A gothic late summer early night pines setting sounds interesting.
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 3y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higurashi_When_They_Cry https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higurashi_When_They_Cry Be advised the quality really drops off after "eye-opening arc", meakashi-hen
- insomniacity 3y ago> as a kid it meant going back to school, the sound still makes me sad and melancholy and reflective about whether I achieved what I wanted When I was a kid Star Trek Voyager broadcast on a Sunday night, and it was the last thing on a weekend before bed. So I had exactly the same issue with the end credits music, just more frequent!
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- iainctduncan 3y agoWe have chorus frogs in a nearby pond. If you walk close to the pond, it is definitely at a solid 90db or more. Sounds amazing. Even weirder, sometimes something happens and they all decide to stop for a while before starting up again together later.