Posted on 11/04/2004 12:44:15 PM PST by TxBec
I'm seeing "spider webs" as I look up in the sky here in central Texas. I thought I was being nuttier than usual, but my friends in 2 nearby towns see it too. anyone know what is going on?
actually, it does look sorta like that..except higher up in the sky and we don't see the spiders.. just the streams of weblike material. This seems to be stretching from at least Fort Hood to as far as Austin.
yes..saw it
I got a good deal on it from a sailor. ;)
go ahead. humor me :)
GALVESTON (AP) - Galveston residents are still trying to figure out what caused the skies over their coastal city to literally be filled Friday with floating strands of wads that looked like spider webs.
The webs were visible in the air for five hours, and poles were left wrapped with the sticky strands and fuzzy wads.
"It blew my mind. I have never seen anything like it before," said Lorenzo DeLacerta, who saw the webs about noon when he delivered building material to a site a mile east of the San Louis Pass Bridge.
DeLacerta said he called his sister, Gloria, who saw the same thing in the sky over nearby La Marque, The Galveston County Daily News reported Saturday.
A spokesman at the National Weather Service Office in League City said the service had received no reports of flying webs - and that flying webs weren't really their thing.
The phenomenon has occurred in at least two other places. The Associated Press reported Oct. 8 that "long, floating spider webs" were "bobbing through the skies of Santa Cruz, Calif., ... confusing some community members concerned about biological weapons, UFOs and other phenomena."
And the Wallowa Chieftain in Oregon reported Dec. 22, 2000, the sightings of "weblike material ... falling from the sky" that some locals thought came "from three military jets that had been flying back and forth in an east-west flight pattern at high altitude."
A University of Wyoming microbiology professor attributed the webs in Santa Cruz to young spiders that launch themselves on their homemade parachutes after hatching to be blown to a new home.
In Wyoming, dozens of the webs can been seen floating across the prairie in the spring, the professor was quoted as saying in the AP story.
However, on the Internet, some conspiracy connoisseurs remain convinced the webs are man-made and could be part of an elaborate government plot.
http://amarillo.com/stories/122202/tex_floatingwebs.shtml
I'm in Cedar Park (NW Austin) and the sky is clear blue.
I never git to have no fun....
Durn it.
ROFLMAO!!!!!!!
Wooooo....what a pretty picture that conjures. ;^)
Yea, but are you a green eyed blonde? :-)
Okay, I just looked again from my balcony, and there's a balloony webby thing stuck to the roof right above swaying in the slight breeze.
thanks
they are drifting all over and sticking to trees, the arbor, and stuff.
No, I'm a brown-eyed brunette. I'm also sane, and actually female. So...nevermind. : )
I guess as long as the balooney thing doesnt have a red star/hammer & sickle on it...you should be ok.
And, my GAWD, no biting anyone's sister!!
if you look toward the sun (obviously blocking it) you can see them floating all around. It seems to be going away now at least here.. but earlier there were so many.. maybe you can still see that many your way
ooops. see 98
"Keyword doesn't say 'darkshearesfault',"
Well, somebody needs to fix the keywords, LOL!
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