Posted on July 10 2006
“‘They were dive-bombing in the root beer floats,’ said Gary Rudy, owner of Rudy’s Drive-In, whose family has been slinging burgers and soft drinks since 1966.” LaCrosse, Wisconsin residents who flipped on National Weather Service radar on June 30 saw a puzzling atmospheric phenomenon: billions of mayflies clouding the screen around the Mississippi River. Lee Berquist in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.