PA DEP’s spraying for mosquitos in order to prevent West Nile Virus. I don’t have a problem with that, but I do have a problem with how they haven’t bothered to tell anyone.
I’m sure you aren’t on their press release e-mailing list, so you here you go. The missus only heard of it because she was passing by a TV and caught the noon news on channel 6.
This also makes me wonder about my newspaper habits. The Inky wrote a lovely article on how the DEP cocked the whole thing up, but I hadn’t read it until just now.
I get the paper, but I usually just read it online. If I had gone cover to cover as I used to, I might have caught it.
So, if you are in Eastern Montgomery County or Lower Bucks tonight, keep your windows up.
Aw heck, they always spray around here without telling us. They wait until, like, midnight, and then the truck with the eerie flashing yellow lights passes through the neighborhood, belching mist. It’s pretty creepy, especially if you happen to wake up and stand at the window when it cruises by. Of course, we all are shut in our hermetically sealed central-air conditioned houses so maybe it’s not as much of an issue.
I haven’t noticed too many two-headed tadpoles in the eternal street pond out front, either.