Cicadas Are So Noisy In A South Carolina County That Residents Are Calling The Police
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Police in South Carolina are Getting Noise Complaints About Cicadas!
Residents of Newberry County, South Carolina, have been startled by an unusual sound echoing through their communities.
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Cicadas are so loud that some South Carolina residents are calling police - The Washington Post
Some in Newberry County, S.C., thought the noise was a siren. The sheriff assured them it was just cicadas.
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Emerging cicadas' cacophony triggers calls to police in South Carolina from confused residents
NEWBERRY COUNTY, S.C. – The emergence of cicadas in South Carolina has caused a disturbance so loud that it prompted uneasy residents to call police for help. The Newberry County Sheriff's Office said they had several calls Tuesday about a noise in the air that sounded like "a siren, or a whine or a roar." "The sound is cicadas," deputies informed residents. On hot, sunny days, the brood's collective sounds can reach the volume of a lawnmower or motorcycle. "Cicadas are a superfamily of insects...