Hey Pat 'MHZ! Hope your "widders" dont do this!

[W5BRM]

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/05/150518-spiders-australia-silk-webs-animals-environment/<br><br>
Forget cats and dogs—it was raining spiders recently in southern Australia (http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/countries/australia-guide/),according to local news reports (http://www.goulburnpost.com.au/story/3075892/baby-spiders-take-to-the-air/?cs=181).
Millions of spiders dropped from the sky in the Southern Tablelands region (map) (http://maps.nationalgeographic.com/maps/map-machine#s=r&c=-34.75770105566828,%20149.70918273925778&z=5), blanketing the countryside with their webs. "They fly through the sky and then we see these falls of spiderwebs that look almost as if it's snowing," local resident Keith Basterfield told the Goulburn Post. (See "7 Bug and Spider Myths Squashed (http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2014/09/11/bugs-animals-insects-spiders-mosquitoes-tarantulas-science-myths/).")​</p></div><br>

[VE7DCW]

I've been in Albury and Goulburn,the site of the head waters of the mighty Murray River.I was there in 1981......I didn't see this spider activity,but in one of the suburbs of Sydney which was in Parramatta,my uncle showed me a small burrow in the ground of a funnel web spider,believed to be in Australia as one of the most dangerous spiders in the world!...... he took a small twig and started poking it into the burrow hole trying to get it out into the open! .......I did get the chance to see it,but I do not like spiders myself so that was enough for me...... their attitude around Sydney was just like perhaps around anywhere else that have venomous spiders,just be wary and treat them with respect and no problem...... :dunno: