Chris_Dunn's Blog

I was recently reviewing some National Weather Service records (because that is what I do for fun in my spare time) and found this interesting tidbit:

 (Denver) August 19-30, 1875   Grasshoppers appeared in great numbers at 10am on the 19th.  Thousands landed on the ground.  The streets were literally covered with them.  Swarms of grasshoppers were seen each day.  All gardens in the city were devastated...and in the countryside the grasshoppers were very destructive to ripened grain.  On the 30th the grasshoppers were so numerous as to almost darken the sun.

Kind of makes anything we have seen this summer tame in comparison!