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We are spider people now.
With floods ravaging towns in New South Wales, sweeping away houses and ruining farmland, residents are now being forced to cope with an unforeseen and incredibly creepy phenomenon. That being the rise of insects, including millions of spiders, who are escaping the waters and attempting to find somewhere dry to hold up while the flooding continues.
“I occasionally see spiders around the place but never anything like that, it was just insane,” Macksville resident Melanie Williams said to ABC. “As the water was rising, the letterbox was going under further and further and I could see all these little black things on there and I thought ‘oh my God, they’re spiders’. Then I looked at my neighbour’s fence and almost had a heart attack. There were literally thousands of them.”
Yes, it seems that spiders have inherited the Earth that we stupid humans once took for granted. But what do we do now? I for one welcome our new arachnid overlords and would like to remind them that as a trusted news/bullshit source, the LWA team would greatly appreciate being spared from their tyrannous wrath.
Check these vids if you don’t believe us:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L5tZHwdLHY
