NBC News
Authorities in Nevada are warning drivers to be cautious after Mormon cricket “sludge” caused several crashes over the weekend.
The icky combination of recent rain and mashed Mormon crickets run over by cars and trucks created a slippery muck over roads and led to two crashes involving three semi-trucks on Interstate 80, the Eureka County Sheriff’s Office said. No serious injuries were reported, a sheriff’s spokesperson said.
The sheriff’s office, as well as fire, emergency services and Nevada State Police, responded to the multiple crashes Saturday and warned vehicles to slow down as the unsavory mixture made “roadways EXTREMELY slick and unpredictable for stopping distance.” More
…and we thot cat shit was slick!
My daughter tells me that the cicadas are quite thick and all over the place in the Nashville area right now. She had a big cicada land on her windshield on her way home from work last and freak her out. I told her to turn her windshield wipers on and squish it, but it flew away.
Klaus Schwab “See, if you’d eat ze bugs none of this would have happened.”
They just had an outbreak a couple years ago.
The shit ain’t funny.
I was working at my dad’s service station and tire store in Rudyard Montana in 1976 when there was a grasshopper infestation. Plugged up radiators and burned up people’s cars, caused accidents and cut every stalk of wheat to the root.
In the 90’s when I worked for a courier company one of our drivers drove into a massive grasshopper infestation out by Sprague Lake about 30 miles W. of Spokane on I-90. When he got back his windshield was completely covered in a thick smear of dead grasshoppers. It was a very stinky, gross mess cleaning that windshield after he got back.
Scrape it up, mix it with wine that’s gone bad, and sell it at Whole Foods as organic vinaigrette dressing.
@ geoff the aardvark WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2024, 17:50 AT 5:50 PM
Hoppers are pretty thick every summer up on the highline. Driving into a swarm of them completely makes it impossible to see a thing through the windscreen. We used to put screen door fabric in front of the radiator and kept flats of hot Coke Cola sitting next to the wringer washer full of chamois that we used to clean the glass. Shake up the cola and spray it on then let it sit while you check the fluids then use a squeegee followed by chamois. There was one way to clean a windshield and any deviation from the approved method was no bueno. My grandfather was the same, I think that is where he learned it.
Hint, hint
“Another problem this year is that USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) does not have any money available for cost sharing for rangeland treatment in the western U.S. Last year, upwards of $1 million was allocated.”
https://hilinetoday.com/hi-line-grasshopper-forecast-not-promising-for-2022/
It’s part of the plan to destroy the ability of the American farmer to feed the nation
What’s the last thing that goes thru a grasshopper’s mind when it hits a car’s windshield at 70 mph? Its butt.
I’m surprised no one has blamed it on climate change.
I think they prefer to be called Later Day Saint Crickets
“the unsavory mixture” Unsavory? Not to some people.
Uncle Al – that organic vinaigrette dressing also has hops in it… 🙂