Cicadas are emerging — and they’re so loud, people called the sheriff

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Cicadas are emerging — and they’re so loud, people called the sheriff

Merry Turner thought the noise she heard Tuesday from her home in Newberry County, South Carolina, was from construction. Meanwhile, Lee Foster, the county sheriff, thought it was from yardwork - maybe a neighbor attacking weeds bright and early. But the sound didn’t stop. It grew louder.