Looks like youre starting a series of historical losses, Millicent?
Something happened on my feed, as you can see, the words connected might be line breaks?
Doug
On Aug 25, 2014, at 11:22 PM, Millicent Borges Accardi <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> One Day in 1875
> (inspired by the Writer'sAlmanac.)
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> They descended like adriving
> snow, masking everything ina breathing,
> hungryhungry corridor,blanketing
> their path. They soundedlike thunder
> or a train pulling into atunnel. They covered
> the ground, a foot deep, descending
> upon the Great Plains in aswarm
> 1,800 miles long. Trees bentunder
> the weight. They ate every living
> piece of vegetation. They devoured
> harnesses off horses, bark fromtrees,
> consuming curtains drawn inopen
> windows. Linens on laundrylines,
> vacant lots, corn and thetailored
> fields from Canada toTexas.
> They chewed wooden handles offarm tools,
> fences and metal. They ateroofs,
> sign posts and highways.The farmers
> became desperate and ran intothe multitude,
> but their clothes were eatenoff their bodies.
> The weight of RockyMountain locusts
> Was equal to 60 million bison.Occurring
> every seven years, theswarms emerged
> from river valleys in themountains, sweeping
> across the plains, growing morefrantic
> when there was no rain— andon one day in 1875,
> farmers saw a cloudapproaching, glinting
> around its edges where wingscaught the light of the sun
> and reflected back, brightly,like watchful emissaries.
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