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Grasshoppers 'crunched' under people's feet as the walked the streets of Laughlin Grasshopper plague descends on Nevada, Arizona
April 21, 1998
Web posted at: 2:45 p.m. EDT (1845 GMT)LAUGHLIN, Nevada (CNN) -- They crept into people's pants and shirts, flew through open windows and sometimes even blotted out the double yellow line along roadways.
In what resembled a scene from a low-budget science fiction film, millions of grasshoppers descended on this town in southeastern Nevada, and Lake Havasu City in Arizona on Monday.
The pale-winged critters sent cars skidding as the streets became slick with squashed bugs, and there was a gruesome "crunch" as people walked through the streets of Laughlin.
It was, truly, an invasion of the biblical kind, as Elizabeth Reyes of KTNV found out on location.
CNN affiliate reporter Elizabeth Reyes, of KTNV, reports
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