The Tiki Room...

When my sister and I were little we wanted so badly to go to the tiki room at Disneyland. I think we thought it was a cool place that adults would hang out. Well, my parents let us go alone. And then we knew why. Little maniacal birds clapping their beaks to music...you are probably wondering where this thought came from...
I was coming home from work today and decided to stop for a venti shaken iced black tea from Starbucks. Unsweetened. With 3 Sugars in the Raw. And I;m in the drive through and the window is open and I keep hearing this horrible sound. At first I thought it was a car alarm...then it sounded almost organic, like maybe some angry birds and a sick car, but then no...and then I decided that it sounded like angry mechanical birds. And that is when I started thinking that the tiki room birds have gone AWOL and they had come to Illinois to seek revenge on everything.
So I asked the guy at Starbucks if he heard something. And he looked at me like I was crazy. But just as I was thinking I was imagining it all he told me they were the cicadas. WHAT?! first the thunderstorms, then the tornadoes, now the cicadas...
What the crap is this state?
So every 17 years the cicadas come out like crazy...but that was last summer. But apparently there are some every year. I can't even imagine what it must have been like last year. But here is a video I found on youtube, from last year in the town where I work.
Sorry so wordy...but it took time to explain ;)