Cicadas

The 17-year cicadas are emerging from their hibernation four years early. It's probably climate change. It's a colorful note for a world falling out of order and possibly into chaos.

[Scientific American]

Weather

Looking out the window, over Ash and Sammy, I said, "Wow, thank god I got you guys inside! That looks nasty." It is rare to see a cloud-covering that is this threatening. It kind of looks like a mammoth alien space ship is settling in over us, with the winds whipping up. We might be in for a battering. I am just hoping that tornadoes do not enter into the picture.

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The next day ...

That alien spaceship never landed. E.T. must have had a chance of heart. We scarcely got a shower's worth of rain.