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Radar image has some bugs in it, literally
It wasn't rain. It certainly wasn't snow. So what was it last Friday that turned the radar in the La Crosse area into a sea of white? It turns out that it was a gigantic hatch of mayflies. The bugs were so thick that they showed up as a rainstorm of mayflies on National Weather Service radar. For about 1 1/2 hours starting at 9 p.m., the insects drifted north, with the radar showing them blanketing areas along the Mississippi River. "They were dive-bombing in the root beer floats," said Gary Rudy, owner of Rudy's Drive-In, whose family has been slinging burgers and soft drinks since 1966. "It hasn't been that bad in a long time."GROSS!!!! Posted by: Chinter Flarong9283 2006-07-11 |
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