And so it begins...

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by M_Six

I have a big box of the yellow ones that use when I'm running the leaf blower or other noisy tool. For sleep, I use softer, tapered plugs. I think I got them at CVS or Walgreens.

I can hear the TV in the other room in the tapered ones. The yellow ones are best for sleeping, for me.

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by Esteban

I can hear the TV in the other room in the tapered ones. The yellow ones are best for sleeping, for me.

I find they irritate my ear canal after a few hours. That's why I like the softer ones. There's never a TV playing when I go to bed, but there are other noises like cars on the road at the base of the hill and rain running down the downspout, which is about 3ft from my head when I sleep.

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by M_Six

I find they irritate my ear canal after a few hours. That's why I like the softer ones. There's never a TV playing when I go to bed, but there are other noises like cars on the road at the base of the hill and rain running down the downspout, which is about 3ft from my head when I sleep.

The tapered ones don’t fill my ear canal. The yellow cylinder shaped ones don’t hurt or irritate my ears and keep things purrrfectly quiet. 🐱

Different strokes…

[kscarrol]

These are the ones I like, rated 32db….

[tturedraider]

Originally Posted by M_Six

Gonna get noisy here soon.

Originally Posted by M_Six

We live in one of six counties in IL that will host both broods. I do not feel lucky.

Originally Posted by kscarrol

Meh... just kind of used to them after living in the south most of my life. Frankly their noise kind of just blends in with my tinnitus.

They have some kind of report on them every single day on the news in Chicago. We have them every summer in Texas, so it’s hard for me to take the concern about them seriously. But, I have a friend here who tells me seventeen years ago in 2007 after they all died they had to shovel them up like shoveling snow. She said they covered everything, so maybe in a few weeks I’ll change my tune. In Texas, as a teenager, I used to shoot them out of the trees in our backyard. I was actually pretty good at it. I’d usually have to hit them two or three times to get them to fall.

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by tturedraider

They have some kind of report on them every single day on the news in Chicago. We have them every summer in Texas, so it’s hard for me to take the concern about them seriously. But, I have a friend here who tells me seventeen years ago in 2007 after they all died they had to shovel them up like shoveling snow. She said they covered everything, so maybe in a few weeks I’ll change my tune. In Texas, as a teenager, I used to shoot them out of the trees in our backyard. I was actually pretty good at it. I’d usually have to hit them two or three times to get them to fall.

I walked out of my garage earlier and one of them fell onto the back of my neck and down inside my shirt. Harmless, but creepy. I grabbed a hose and hosed them off the house. Most of what was there were empty carcasses anyway.

[Hadden14]

They have yet to emerge in our AO, but I have the windshield cleaner at the ready.

[dradernh]

Originally Posted by Hadden14

They have yet to emerge in our AO, but I have the windshield cleaner at the ready.

Fortunately for those of us in SW Ohio, they're not emerging here. The emergence of a few years ago was the last one for a while.

[infinitekidM2C]

Bruh i just ate lunch...ffs

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by infinitekidM2C

Bruh i just ate lunch...ffs

Was it crunchy and tasty?

[Esteban]

Look away if you have a weak stomach.

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by Esteban

Look away if you have a weak stomach.

Read about this on a blog. Nasty upon nasty.