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Good thing cicadas emerge every 17 years. Otherwise, newscasters like Katya Leick would never be able to file on-location reports. While filing a story for KSNT in Topeka, Kan., from U.S. Army base Fort Riley — standing in what appears to be a military vehicle — cicadas swarm around Leick. She attempts to shoo them away, arms and microphone flailing, to no avail. Not even her screams send them away. To her credit, she eventually gains her composure, even after one lands on her lip, and finishes her report. “Every time I tried to start talking, they’d come. I was like, ‘I need to hold it together, come on, I just have to get this done with’,” she said in an interview with ABC News. Check out the video here. Residents of Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Iowa, Nebraska and Texas should expect to see the cicadas for a few weeks beginning now, reports the Kansas City Star, however they won’t appear again until 2032.
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