A Las Vegas pizzeria is taking the old adage about making lemonade when life hands you lemons to heart.
Grasshoppers? What’s up? Locusts invaded “Sin City” last week – and it looks like the plague of biblical proportions may last for weeks. They’re even messing with weather radars ~
An invasion of pallid-winged grasshoppers descended on Las Vegas this past week, taking over the Strip and several of the city’s most popular tourist spots, including the night skies above the Luxor hotel and casino […]
An unusually wet year so far in Las Vegas, which has already exceeded its annual rainfall average of about four inches, is responsible for the arrival of the grasshoppers, said Jeff Knight, an entomologist with the Nevada Department of Agriculture.
In any event, I must say it’s encouraging to see that that can-do American response to adversity is still alive and well in Vegas.
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