My brothers and some local kids went body boarding down the creek when it was flooding one time and they all ended up with a heap of spiders hitching rides with them.
Floods in Australia
Submitted 3 weeks ago by naught101@lemmy.world to australia@aussie.zone
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SamuraiBeandog@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Kayaked a hell creek one time, most arduous thing I’ve ever done, took 28-hours.
Did not know there were banana spiders under every piece of tree I dodged. Was so covered I gave up on using the sponge to toss 'em, went in with my fingers, fast as I could go. Anyway, I’m a little over my fear of spiders. A little.
SamuraiBeandog@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I would have immediately drowned myself.
Lembot_0002@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Bushfires: ok-ok, we’ll wait some time…
Saleh@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Wildfires and floods support each other.
As the green burns down it can help less with water retention and slowing down the surface runoff or stabilizing slopes through the roots.
As the floodings uproot trees or kill them in stagnant areas with prolonged suffocation of the roots, the dead trees dry quicker and become more susceptible to fire.
Climate catastrophe is fun.
Lembot_0002@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
support each other.
Aww, how cute…
naught101@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well, it is nearly winter 😂
galoisghost@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
I reckon we’re on coin toss climate. Heads (bushfires) or tails (floods). Sometimes it bushfires, sometimes it’s floods. Lately on the East Coast we’ve been on a flood streak. Our “luck” will change soon.
LavaPlanet@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
I didn’t think about all the spiders that’d be in flood waters…
naught101@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Lots of them can walk on water (e.g. Fishing Spiders)), and some big ones can live underwater for over 24 hours
jagungal@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is an immensely stupid idea. The SES will relocate your animals if you ask.
naught101@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Only if they have capacity, and I doubt they have capacity for horses very often.
I guess how stupid it is depends on the particular location - if you’re on a flood plain, then yeah, but if there’s high ground nearby, maybe not.
TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I’d been saving to buy my kids new laptops for their upcoming birthdays and picked some up at a great sale price last weekend. Last update they were in Lismore on Tuesday afternoon…
naught101@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
… What?
TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
The 2 laptops I ordered were on their way being delivered. It’s now Sunday and the last update on the tracking info was from last Tuesday in Lismore, right before all this flooding.
j4k3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
wtf does this even mean?
The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Bugs crawling into his underpants and having a nibble.
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Just when I thought this post couldn’t get sexier
mriswith@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Beetle = beetle.
budgie smuggler = speedo
chop(probably chomp) = bite
Animals tend to seek high-ground during floods, to avoid drowning. Doesn’t matter if it’s a human or a tree, so beetles and spiders climb him and hide. Although he’s happy that it’s beetles and not snakes.
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
OMG, I got new slang!
pHr34kY@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s funny because any Aussie would read that and know exactly what he means.
eureka@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beetle
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/budgie_smugglers
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chomp
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/me