--- Kevin Tarr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > Yet another reason that any move I make will be > farther north. I can take > snow and ice and polar bears, but spiders and snakes > and other bugs the size of your hand forget it. > > Kevin T. > Was in New Orleans at three in the morning and the > sidewalk was covered > with huge bugs, may have been roaches. I was not > drunk.
They were roaches, called by some locals 'water bugs.' When we lived in Baton Rouge, I remember pulling the sheet over my head to keep the ones crawling on the ceiling from dropping onto me. They can fly, too; their natural high-rise towers are the water oaks (hence the moniker, I guess), but in the winter they find houses more cosy. Mom used gallons of Raid before discovering Roach-Pruf, which is boric acid with an attractant (dessicates the creepies from the inside out, as they ingest it while grooming). <shudder> Cats Find Them Delightfully Crunchy Maru __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
