Central Nevada Drivers Beware Of Mormon Crickets

People are being warned in Central Nevada for drivers to beware of Mormon Crickets. The Mike & Carla Morning Show talked about this and it seems that the thousands of crickets on the road getting squashed by vehicles is leaving a slick "sludge" on the roads. This in turn is causing problems for drivers.

Reports from NBC News saying that there have already been a couple of accidents with semi-trucks getting caught up in the "sludge" and skidding off the road on I-80. Luckily, no one has been seriously injured.

It seems that with the recent rain in this part of the state and the remnants of these dead crickets on the road, has caused what the report says is a "slippery muck" on the roads.

Drivers have been warned to slow down and that there is an unpredictable stopping distance when driving on this stuff.

The good news is that these critters that migrate to Nevada from the neighboring state of Utah are really no threat to humans. But they are big and tend to be very cannibalistic...oh yeah, that makes people more at ease! LOL!

Now keep in mind that this is a lot different than grasshoppers and when they invaded Las Vegas a few years ago. With these little varmints, according to the report, will last for about 4 to 6 years before finally dying off.

On the flipside, as we said earlier in the post, this is nothing new for central or even northern Nevada. The report also sites an elementary school in Sparks shutting down all outdoor activities due to the crickets one year.

Keep in mind that this is all happening north of Las Vegas...at this point in time. Until this whole thing moves south, we will keep you up to date. So, take a couple of minutes and listen to the segment from this morning!

To see all the best landmarks in one state, you'd usually have to drive from one end of the state to the other. But that's not the case in Nevada. According to tourists, the best landmarks that Nevada has to offer all lie within the bottom half of the state. And all within 50 miles of each other.

Architecture Lab is a group of people who are passionate about architecture, art and design. They recently conducted a study with data they pulled from TripAdvisor, using the site's traveller rankings. The data measured what tourists thought were the top-rated landmark in each state.

Other states, according to this survey, have their top five landmarks spread out. California's top sites stretch from the Santa Monica Pier, in Southern California, to the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz Island up north in San Francisco. Idaho's top landmarks start in Coeur d'Alene in the upper north west and stretch down to the southeast in Idaho Falls.

Even Hawaii has its top landmarks more spread out than we do here in Nevada. Their top sites reach from the Vanillerie on the island of Hawai'i to the Lydgate Farms Kauaʻi Chocolate on the island Kauaʻi. The only other state in the survey that has the most popular landmarks as close to each other as Nevada does is Rhode Island. And, according to a-z-animals.com, that state is 91 times smaller than we are.

Basically, if Nevada were a ship that was weighed down with the greatest landmarks, we'd flip over on the south side. Even though Tahoe and Reno are on our state map, they're not doing us any favors when it comes to great landmarks. At least not according to this data. Which really goes to show that Clark County is kind of bringing it for the whole state. And by "it", I mean the tourists with the bucket lists.

So where are the five best landmarks in the Nevada? According to this survey, they're all within 50 miles of the Las Vegas Strip.

Compared to other sports arenas, Allegiant Stadium has some of its own unique features. Being one of the newest stadiums to have been built, it definitely has a more slick, modern look than its architectural predecessors. And since it's next to the I-15 freeway in Las Vegas, away from the tall hotels nearby, it kind of looks like a huge spaceship that just landed in the middle of an open field.

Allegiant also has a somewhat rare feature that many other stadiums don't have. The field is actually on a huge moving tray that can come completely out from under the stadium so it can be worked on under the open air and sun. It's like a gigantic version of that plastic tray that you can pull out from under the dog crate to change the paper. But much less smelly.

I don't know, guys. This seems kind of like a throwaway vote, since there are so many individual architectural wonders on the Strip. The Eiffel Tower, the Luxor, the STRAT. All worthy of their own vote in this survey. Maybe the tourists that voted just couldn't decide which is the coolest landmark on Las Vegas Blvd. So they just picked the Strip as a whole. Which means the two landmarks on this list that are on LV Blvd are even more amazing in their own right, right?

I've heard a lot of tourists refer to this as a ferris wheel. That will lead to some inevitable disappointment, as this landmark barely goes fast enough to see that it's moving at all. The High Roller is actually an observation wheel. Appropriately named because it gives you the best views of the Las Vegas Strip from 550 feet off the ground.

I've ridden this giant a few times. It's huge. It's actually the tallest observation wheel in the world. And each one of its 28 cabins can hold 40 people, so says visitlasvegas.com. And at a speed of one foot per minute, it takes about half an hour to get all the way around.

Yes. All day long this one gets my vote. Look at this thing. It's an architectural marvel. The 2,000 foot long bridge was finished in 2010, giving travelers another travel option to get from the Arizona side of the Colorado River to the Nevada side. Which was very needed at the time construction started. Travel was restricted crossing the dam at that time. So, many drivers chose the switchback roads in the area, which lead to a lot of congestion.

I lived in Las Vegas when this thing was finished. It was the coolest thing to happen to the Hoover Dam since Matthew Perry and Salma Hayek had that baby on the state line.

I've never noticed it before, but the aerial view of the Bellagio Fountains looks a lot like the fountains at Disneyland's Pixar Pier. Both an impressive underwater series of tracks, this one designed to push water as high as 460 feet in the air, according to bellagio.com. Although the architecture is out of view at street level, it's easy to see why this gets the number one landmark vote from tourists.

The fountains go off every day and are set to different types of music and lights. It's the perfect romantic spot to pop the question. And the best spot to watch any holiday-themed water show as well. Tourists often gather in front of the Bellagio fences to watch the action. But locals know you can get brunch with the same view if you get a table across the street at Mon Ami Gabi in the Paris Hotel & Casino.

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