Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Clingy mayflies again swarm Columbia area from Susquehanna River

Dead mayflies cover a light fixture at the LGH facility on 7th Street.
[Columbia Spy photo]

The lights are out and the street sweepers are getting a workout on the bridge connecting Columbia and Wrightsville during the annual blitz of mayflies from the Susquehanna River.
Fans were set up at the entrance to the Turkey Hill Experience to protect visitors and floodlights on the ground of Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health's Columbia facility were darkened by dead bugs.

MORE:

https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/clingy-mayflies-again-swarm-columbia-area-from-susquehanna-river/article_64af3da6-8485-11e8-a679-d725930c8d92.html

4 comments:

  1. Raise the lights back up to where they were

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    1. NO brainer , see what 2.2 million got us , and lites are not bright as old ones.

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    2. WAIT TILL 462 TO union has the same lites

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  2. I'm almost positive this is why they replaced the old lights with towering cobraheads in the 70's. Too bad noone remembered....

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