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[Le-Roy]

   Folks, please excuse the vanity, but I would like to get others to look at this.

   If there is anyone in Dallas with a telescope or a good set of binoculars, get outside and point them SE, towards Kaufman Cty.

   There are currently thousands (literally) of wispy, white 'streamers' of something drifting down through the sky. This stuff is falling all over my yard, all over Forney, and all the way out to Terrell.

   Could this be the same 'harmless' stuff which fell in Trappe, MD. last week? I don't know, but it is truly bizarre.

[Le-Roy]

Thanks, DB. And now back to Leroy in Dallas...

   Yes, thanks, DB; and thank you, Bob. We're, uh, having a little trouble with the mike here, but, as our in-studio expert, Sabertooth, has mentioned, it seems entirely possible that this is nothing more than an inundation of arachnids.

   I still think it's unusual, though.

   Back to you, Bob.

[AtticusX]

Walkin' Dude

M-O-O-N that spells Randall Flagg, Tom Cullen knows that, laws yes, everybody knows that.

Take Care.

Atticus

[AtticusX]

PA-Ping

[AtticusX]

Have you ever seen a cat near the cellophane wrap removed from a pack of cigarettes?

Ever strapped the cellophane on a cat's back foot with a rubber band? Entertainment for the whole family. :)

Atticus

[classygreeneyedblonde]

Nice spiders.....lol

[ValerieUSA]

eeeeek! Two of my sons and I had NASTY spider bites last year that took 2 months to heal after the painful wounds grew and festered - they left quarter-sized scars on us. That happened soon after we moved to Texas.

[Sabertooth]

" it seems entirely possible that this is nothing more than an inundation of arachnids."

Well, we're not out of the cottonwoods yet, LeRoy.

[psst. Better get som Raid on that mike]

Could be some of those Al Qider Spiders.

[BigBwana]

Sorry, I thought it was "female" cottonwoods but regardless, they make a mess and are hell around swimming pools.

I called another one of my cousins in Kaufman. I read him your reply to me and he went outside to a side of a small building on his property. He couldn't see anything but one plane. His wife says that several hot air ballons are going up today as is popular and normal. I don't doubt that some people are seeing things, but no one in my rather large family in Kaufman has noticed a thing and they've stood outside and looked per my request. Boy, am I going to be a hit at the next family reunion! (:^)

[ValerieUSA]

By the way - I see nothing unusual in the sky over Waco - just an absolutely beautiful clear blue sky and butterflies fluttering by my window.

[cyberwatcher]

Nice graphic. Shouldn't the spiders be wearing little white turbans?

[Young Werther]

I attended the Plano East Band Festival last evening, (about 20 miles north of Dallas). While waiting in the parking lot for my daughter's band to assemble by the school bus I noticed a sinuous strand floating about 50' in the air. It had what appeared to be a "head" or nucleus and my first thought was that it looked like a giant sperm. It shimmered in a gossamer fashion but it never reached the ground. It floated our of sight and I gave it no further thought.

[Le-Roy]

LOL!

   Although, if them's 'Al-Qider spyders', I'm surprised you'd leave 'em out there in the open. Liable to come back and find nuthin' but a smokin' hole.

[rwfromkansas]

Cottonwood trees.....I could understand that as a Kansan if it was close to the ground.....but these wisps are thousands of feet up and coming down.....no cottonwood tree is that tall.

[Toidylop]

Well. What's the verdict here after 4 hours of paranoia concern???

[rwfromkansas]

take some of it (obviously without your hand touching it and please, with something covering your mouth just in case....)....take it to a private lab. They are the only folks who would tell the truth if it is bad. Then, make sure to report to us what it is....if serious, I will write an article about it....

[Sabertooth]

"Spider in the HOLE!'

"AAIIIIEEEEEE!!! Allah bak-wash! We are accursed!"

[Le-Roy]

Boy, am I going to be a hit at the next family reunion! (:^)

   Awww, if they give you any grief, just say "But what about the angular momentum?" Oh, wait, that only works at gatherings of astro-physicists, and other folks who study gravitas (harks back to a thread about the creation of our moon).

   Seriously, though, they're still comin' down out here, the ones close to the ground movin' so fast through the binocular lens that I couldn't possibly count them. You can see them with the naked eye, if you look to either side of the sun (the sun itself still blocked by the building) just above the roofline of the building.

[rwfromkansas]

we do need a delete key to delete our own messages sometimes....lol

[AfghanAirShow]

Hehehe... nice graphic. Been listening in on the scanner here in the Houston area and caught some traffic from Harris County Sheriff's deputies reporting some web or 'Silly String' looking stuff (didn't catch the area of the county they were in), and one officer reported seeing lots of spiders around one spot. "Gonna get me a big ol' can of Raid" was his comment... :)