Restaurants Have a New Problem, and It Has Red Eyes and Is Super Loud
Cicadas could turn outdoor dining into a total nightmare.
Restaurants are back, baby! Head over to that reopened neighborhood joint, and snag a table with some friends you haven’t seen in a year. Overpriced cocktails have never sounded so good. Sit on the patio, and take in late May for all it’s worth. Oh, the waiter’s coming over; have you decided on drinks yet? Sorry, what’s that? I can’t hear you. Can you shout a little louder? Uh ... did something just fly into your face?
The cicadas are back, baby! From Illinois to Washington, D.C., trillions of , red-eyed critters are just about to burst out of their 17-year slumber to blast mating calls as loud as rock—before the bugs’ remnants turn your afternoon stroll into crunchapalooza.
