Close to Home by John McPherson for June 21, 2016
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Transcript:
"I warned you 20 times that a locust swarm was coming and to get your head in the window, but do you ever listen to me? No!"
about 20 years ago, heading from Jackson hole west over to Idaho, we were in a full size van…I was driving and thought it was dark rain clouds up ahead, we were climbing a hill (van wasn’t the most reliable over heated some times) and as we got closer we realized it was mosquito’s. Turned off the AC, closed the vents and some still got in but thousands of them hit the windshield and splatted, I couldn’t see very well at that point and washer fluid wasn’t cutting it. We were just like, uh not pulling over in this…keep driving. Got to the next town and it was caked on the head lights so hard they were useless and spent 30 mins just cleaning the windshield.
never seen anything like that before or again. I just tremble at the thought of feeding 10,000 or so mosquitos.