Posted on 05/22/2015 3:58:44 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A hike at Ransom Canyon turned serious for two Lubbock women on Monday when they were attacked by a swarm of mosquitoes.
Carrie Shores and Megan Raden are Texas Tech students who just wanted to enjoy the outdoors with their friends when mosquitoes that "looked like flies" began to bite them.
The mosquitoes continued to bite them even as they were running; including bites on their faces. They were still a distance away from their vehicles, and both said the mosquitoes did not stop chasing them until they reached a residential area where officials spray repellent.
Once Shores and Raden returned to their Lubbock home, they decided to get pens out to circle the bites on their bodies.
Shores had a "very unlucky" amount of 124 bites, mostly on her legs. Raden had 81, mostly on her arms since she wore a tank top that day. The roommates had to purchase Benadryl and cortisone cream to relive their intense itching.
Shores and Raden both admit they did not wear mosquito repellent that day, because Shores had been to Ransom Canyon the week before and did not notice a mosquito problem.
But now the women said they learned their lesson and have a bottle of repellent in their back yard as a precaution.
Uh.......this actually made it into the news.
LOL
Now thats a slow news day.
My thoughts exactly.
Weird, sounds like a typical day in Houston.
It’s hard to believe this item ate up broadcast news air time.
Texas sized mosquitos? Maybe they immigrated from Mexico .... for the love... of gringo blood.
Mosquitoes? In Lubbock? News to me.
Yeah I go out into the woods and they rise up out of the underbrush like a cloud and I get bit hundreds if not thousands of times.
Stealth War On Women by the GOP!
They were asking for it by dressing like that anyway.
So don’t be whacking the mosquito nest with a stick...
Or the biting fly nest either.
Those aren’t mosquitoes, those are mono lake flies
I have never been to Lubbock but that really surprises me. I always thought of it as sort of dry, windy area.
I remember when I lived in Western Kansas, I doubt I ever saw a mosquito the entire five years. Now flies and crickets were common in that area. I suspect if there had been no feed yards, there would have been no flies.
Stay out da bushes....even in Lubbock.
I grew up in Beaumont TX—and mosquitoes were a fact of life there—and they were big and black!
Once, our family was transferred to Williston, ND. I could not believe the mosquitoes they have (or had there, though this was many years ago, so maybe they have solved it since.)
Two things struck me about Williston (which I came to love): There was no hot lunch program in their schools, so all the kids walked home for lunch—and the mosquitoes!
The kids walking on the sidewalks actually had black clouds of mosquitoes following them as they walked. I would have thought the extreme cold winters up there would have killed all of the mosquitoes, but apparently not….
That's it, blame the victim.
The mosquitoes at Ft. Riley tore me up...of course that's in the northeastern part of the state and essentially a peninsula being bound on three sides by Tuttle Creek Lake, Milford Lake and the Kansas River.
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