It took about an hour before the bridge went under, sorry I did not mean to mislead you in my title, I just filmed the river rising while I could stand on the bridge, that was a rush and I wanted to share that.
@@simon_patterson the title said watch how fast the bridge goes under. It never said how fast it did this. But in saying that it doesnt go all the way under
I suspect that indeed many of the bugs came off of the trees floating under the bridge but I bet there were tens of thousands of bugs living all over the underside of the bridge in crevices and openings in the concrete. Especially the crickets. Beautiful video thank you for posting it!
@Starfire Horizon *"Well Noah Had To Build An Arc To Save The WHOLE Lot From Drowning, Sooo... Who's Smarter?"* Yeah, but Noah did all the work, and the animals just traipsed up when everything was all ready to go. So, I don't know...
Under bridges over water is where I have seen the largest versions of any species of spider. The food sources are way more prevalent for them near water
Poor spiders probably scared stiff wondering what's going on, some fine big ones though, I wouldn't be scared if the big ones like huntsman or tarantula,it's the little redbacks I'd be worried about, not easy seen, glad we don't get them in Scotland 🏴
What's more amazing that it took him to the end of the video to realize where the insects were coming from....Mother Nature is the strongest of all mothers.
The bugs were coming from the underside of the bridge. That's where they all make their webs to catch other insects to eat. But once that water started to rise and breach their hiding spots they had to crawl to higher ground to survive. Very common on bridges with rising flood waters, that's why you never go barefoot during floods!
Some of them yes, but the majority of them comes from the debris that crash into the bridge as he said in the end of the video - wonder why it took him so long to figure that out.
@@jrand2631 True....notice that a lot of the float wood is dead river oak that collapses easily from the river banks. Critters love making their homes in the dead wood and are jumping off as it crumples with the force.
@@thomasw.glasgow7449 Fun fact, trolls in fairy tales that live under bridges are based on the insane/angry and dangerous homeless that have nowhere else to go.
I'm shocked they continued to allow traffic on the bridge. It seems like a very unsafe situation. Also, just because they are allowing it doesn't mean you should do it.
Here in Germany, heavy iron bridges made of steel collapsed in the Ahr Valley last year because rubbish and trees had accumulated under them. In the end, road bridges sank and the iron trough bridge of the railway was carried away 30 meters only by the force of the water. 133 people lost their life only in that area, at the end in Germany died 184 people. That's why my heart always gets heavy when I see people on bridges filming garbage getting stuck underneath and piling up...
@@kinte1870 Nope, no, that was the tremendous water pressure that weighed against the bridge. It acted like a dam with all the rubbish that was caught and wedged underneath (trees, cars, caravans...). Then three of them in a row and you had a water wall of between 7 and 14 (!) meters rushing through the valley. Then no bridge could hold up. It had been raining heavily for days, more than 200mm per HOUR on one square meter. There was simply far too much water that accumulated in the mountainous area. This are pictures from the first few days after the flood: ruclips.net/video/0YdCiEqePJw/видео.html
@@chrismuller9289 I'm watching the video now and was about to comment that it was probably the force of the moving water. No way I'd be on that bridge with that much water going under. I don't think people understand how much water weighs in volume
@@kinte1870 This one has english subtitles and you can see that iron railway bridge roundabout far away from the origin place... ruclips.net/video/4UgRqJG-cYM/видео.html
One thing I've noticed about borderline living in the creeks almost all day every day in Oklahoma: Before heavy rains, almost every spider will move to higher ground to avoid heavy storms. A few hours beforehand to a week or so after heavy rain, you will find hundreds of them all over the place just in or just outside of the floodplain. It's a sight to behold when you walk up on reliably 50-60 funnel webs that are all visible from where your standing, knowing that every single one has a spider in it. They build their funnels from ground level to about 6 feet high in the trees at most, so your literally surrounded.
I grew up outside a small town in SW Oklahoma and every time that we were going to have flooding, you could watch all of the tarantulas a few days before the rain that would be going to higher ground; there were 1,000's of them!!😐
Listening to Australians talking about spiders is hilarious. It’s like the British and weather. Instead of “hey mate, nasty weather!” it’s “seen the size of this bastard! Look out there’s one on your leg” 😆
Took about fifty swipes down to find a citizen news item.. RUclips flooded with news company items.. This was ten times better than any of them. Cheers from Ireland
Thank you so much for the spider warning. They were very creepy on that pole. I live in California, I've never seen bugs like that. And, to see someone in bare feet!! I hope they don't bite. Very interesting video, thanks for posting.
Mesmerizing! I could watch it all day. From my recliner of course. No way could I walk out onto the bridge. That’s just combining two of my worst phobias. Bridges and drowning. Floods, in my opinion, are the most awe inspiring yet terrifying of natural disasters. That’s saying a lot since I live smack in the middle of tornado alley.
Bridges and drowning. What about the Spiders ? Lmao. I'd cross any bridge to get away from one. That's the thing with floods. I'm in Australia. They take and carry away everything. 💜. No way, living in the Middle of that valley. I'd hate to be thinking all the time,that a Tornado 🌪️ will suck up the house at any time. Hasn't the US had more tornadoes in the past month,than any other ? Ive heard from FB friends that the winds have been very strong.
@@WindsorBaitAndTackle yea tornadoes suck. Less predictable than hurricanes/cyclones/typhoons and while less wide spread than them are, imo, far more terrifying. There is no "evacuate" for a tonrado much less an ef5. Ef5 protocol is "get in the basement and fucking pray"
I live in Melbourne but have friends who live in this flood prone area so thanks for the footage. As many have written, most of these bugs come from under the bridge and some have even come from the driftwood. Fortunately most of these seem to be harmless ie: golden orb spiders (and its relatives), huntsman, wolf spiders, common house black spiders and brown spiders, crickets, ants, grasshoppers/locusts but, fortunately, no redbacks or funnel webs. Nice footage - and well-focussed too. I remember watching Force Ten from Navarone and the dam/bridge collapse and thinking it was well done - but this real life. Thumbs up.
Great video! I found it so relaxing to watch you filming the flooding river while standing on a bridge in the rain that I fell asleep. I woke up two hours later and watched the last half. Thank you.
All those spiders and insects lived under the bridge. Some of the spiders are carrying their sacs full of spider babies. Nature trying to survive. Thanks for the show. Prayers to the people putting up with damages from the storms.
Thanks for sharing this. I attended Richmond High School in the 90’s and although I didn’t grow up in the Hawkesbury and no longer reside there (I have lived in CW NSW for over 20yrs now) I will always call the area home. Watching what has been happening is heartbreaking.
Me too, I lived in Windsor, went to St Mathews, lived on the road where Windsor Mushrooms was and Parker's Horse Stud and left soon after the floods in '62 I think it was, we had a turkey farm and Smith's had the chicken farm. Moved our turkeys out so others could put their furniture inside the turkey shed, their houses ended up water to the eaves. We were cut off and I remember the army duck coming up out of the water and bringing us food. The rail line at Vinyard was washed away. I also remember The Doctors House where Dr Skinner lived and had his surgery ... All great and vivid memories, I live in WA now, have done for 56 years and is home but when asked where I'm from, it's always Windsor, so many memories there, the cornfields both sides of the road just before the old bridge and pub going into Windsor.
I was six and living in Windsor during the 1957 flood and it was a big one. We lived on Mileham St, up near the water towers, so were safe, but I remember walking down Ham St and looking toward toward the Richmond side and looking at the inland sea!
Wow, awesome vid (besides the spiders lol) was going to say they must have been living under the bridge but they got moved along by the water, but what you said also makes sense so maybe a bit of both. So many that I havent seen before and never want to again! Also the power of the flowing water is amazing. You dont relise it until something like this happens. Anyway take care yeah, im in Melbourne watching all this unfold on the news, my heart goes out to everyone who have lost. I wish I could get up there to help everyone clean up. Peace! X
Hello from Phoenix, Arizona. This video takes me back to early February 1980 when the Salt River through Phoenix got to flood stage. The bridges were small and Phoenix was bisected by the river with only two bridges being able to remain open. I witnessed a similar scene at the 35th Avenue bridge across the Salt River. The water was not as high, but was faster flowing because of a bottleneck just east of the bridge. The bridges that remained open were the Central Avenue and Mill Avenue bridges. The I-10 bridge was able to remain open, but one side closed due to the southbound lanes beginning to sink.
I remember years ago standing just west of the Mill Ave. bridge watching all of the trash zip by. The river was flooded and had cut into a landfill upstream in Mesa.
,It was great to see so many different insects and spiders carrying their eggs with them to get out of the water. The river is incredibly wide and it was interesting to see the tree branches and flotsam going under the bridge. I like the Australian wildlife. The water got so high. It would be interesting to see this river in different weather too!
I felt sorry for the spiders and bugs .😢. What a life ! There you are ,minding your own business under the bridge, and whoosh ! A huge flood ! 😢🕷️ And you have to climb up and huddle on the fence ! 🕷️ 🇬🇧💕🕸️💕🕷️😢🐜🇬🇧
@@joecausey8508 and don’t forget the red belly black snakes, or the brown snakes and the deadliest of all, the eastern Taipan! 🤣 Spiders! Least of ya worries. 😉
Any spiders on that bridge know it’s an apocalypse on the way Getting outta Dodge … or at least trying for higher ground Amazing footage of arachnids and that epic flood - the speed of that water is fearsome
Thanks for posting this. We in WA are sending prayers 🙏 Please stay safe. Edit: the speed of the flooding is amazing. When the swaying of the bridge was mentioned 😳 The insects escaping en masse was incredible.
Interestingly we have had next to no rain in Melbourne for 8 weeks. A light shower today and Saturday, that's it. This storm system has sucked all the rain into one ball north of the Dividing Ranges and is sitting above the east coast.
Love those thoughts and prayers! The best way to make yourself feel better about doing nothing, by doing exactly that, nothing. I'm sure those thoughts and prayers helped fill sandbags and other quantifiable endeavors. We appreciate it! ;)
NOTE: The giant spiders are not Huntsmans, but the Giant Water Spider (Megadolomedes australianus) They love to live on bridges (usually close to water) so they can catch fish and tadpoles. They are pretty harmless, although those ones had egg sacks so might be more aggressive. They can also glide on water when it's calm. Much bigger than the average Huntsman.
I saw *warn* in the title, and thought it would say “warning flashing lights” or “warning possibly disturbing content”. I’m glad to see there was a spider warning, definitely helps me mentally prepare for that. I hate spiders.
I think if I'd seen how high the water was, I wouldn't have stepped foot onto that bridge, let alone ventured half way across it! The video maker was damned lucky there wasn't a sudden surge or 'flood crest'- he risked being swept away. That water didn't look as if it was moving very fast, but it can pack quite a wallop, and it's all too easy to underestimate both the weight and power of water like that.
I imagine this bridge, at this time, would have been of interest to entomologists. I never saw so many huge spiders, of different species, out in public together at the same time.
Noticed the spiders about 5 min before you did lol. The sacks are eggs I remember being down the lowlands as a kid as the water was rising & hundreds of thousands of spiders where all on the edge of the water 😱. Bloody hell they shut the bridge early these days. It use to be when the water started trickling over. I saw the water in the pub. Thanks for sharing 👍🏻👍🏻🙃🙃
The spiders came down the river on the wood and debris that's floating down. They instinctively look for anything above the flood, so when what they're on hits the bridge, they climb up onto the bridge as quickly as they can. Floods can be really scary stuff. Very destructive and powerful.
In storm Desmond a copper stood in the middle one of our old stone bridges in Cumbria. He stood there, stopping the traffic crossing due to very high water. The sandstone bridge collapsed and crushed/drown him in the catastrophe.
People don't realize how fast rivers and creeks can rise and how incredibly dangerous they are. I live by a creek that empties into the river and when it rains, like it's doing right now, that creek it looks like that. Yet at least once or twice a year, some complete imbecile decides that is the perfect time to go tubing and the Sheriff department has to deploy the water rescue team to save them from being swept into the river and drowned in the low level dam.
I had my wife in my canoe and we were going to go under a bridge that had a couple of feet headway but once we got close I saw literally thousands of spiders clinging to the top of the concrete...About face.. Would not have been pretty... I could see her tipping the canoe trying to get away.
AAAHGHHHH!! 🙀😯🥵😳😱😬😩. I have major arachnophobia 🥺😕😩. At seeing the first spider, I would've been so OFF of that bridge, like right now. Some people say the spiders and creepy-crawlies came off all the trees and stuff floating down river. Many did, but the vast majority came from under the bridge were they live. Anyway, to the guy who shot this video, thank you very much for your work... and bravery for standing up to those little monsters. 😒🤢
The old bridge was extremely unstable and a virtually a suspension bridge with only few pylons securing it. I’d say this flood proof bridge has withstood two floods and has done it’s job. All the local truckies could feel the old one rolling under their trucks weight.
Mate born in the hawkesbury 1982 I only seen it flood once I think it 1988 or 89 yes when it floods the water level can get really high. Actually a long time ago the north Richmond pub use to be where the service station was, the flood level was very high and that's why they moved the pub to higher ground.but thanks for the update on what's happening.many of my friends still live there.
This sure brings back sad and horrifying memories of the flood that decimated my hometown back in 1982 So sorry for the loss for your community. I hope no one got hurt. They sure left that bridge open way too long. Duh
Hi Aaron long time mate since we spoke. Great Vid These are the spiders that fall on you when you hang a lure up in the trees. Cheers Daryl you lent me your boat for a break comp!!
This reminds me of my cities great flood back in 2008. I'm in the States and after six straight days of rain and the remnants of a tropical depression the main bridge in my hometown flooded over. That never had happened in all my years living here.
I've never seen that many spiders in one place. Om gosh, I wouldn't have been able to stay on that bridge. I'm deathly scared of spiders. And that guy who was barefooted. Yikes.
I was in the Mississippi floods of 1993. Running water positively terrifies me. This video shot my stress level through the roof. To me filming that was not brave, but foolhardy. It was negligent of the public safety officials not to close the bridge to both road traffic and pedestrians.
This went from flood video to my worst nightmare, real quick 😂 mate, I don't know whether they lived under that bridge or in the trees that came down the river 😅 hope your house stayed dry bud.. Shocking how fast that water came up...
There were most likely bugs living under the bridge too that climbed up. and others rode the wood down the river till they could find a spot to crawl off. now you can see how species move from one area to another.
Those spiders and what not all live on and under the bridge in every nook and cranny. We've just had over 100ml in about 4.5hrs just north of Mudgee NSW. Lucky we are in the mtns.
This video went from pretty interesting to really freaking cool in zero seconds flat. I love all the spiders and bugs!!!! They are everywhere trying to escape the water. Wow!!!
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It took about an hour before the bridge went under, sorry I did not mean to mislead you in my title, I just filmed the river rising while I could stand on the bridge, that was a rush and I wanted to share that.
Was great mate ,,,, and so was the one today with Ben . ✔👍🎣
An hour is still pretty dam fast for a waterway that wide to go up that much
Bugger the apology, just fix the title mate
@@simon_patterson the title said watch how fast the bridge goes under. It never said how fast it did this.
But in saying that it doesnt go all the way under
@@simon_patterson He shouldn’t need to. He doesn’t specify a time. An hour is fast.
I suspect that indeed many of the bugs came off of the trees floating under the bridge but I bet there were tens of thousands of bugs living all over the underside of the bridge in crevices and openings in the concrete. Especially the crickets. Beautiful video thank you for posting it!
Glad you are safe. Everytime a tree slammed into the bridge thought it would collapse. Is that bridge still standing? What a video! .👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Animals run away from the flooding water. Humans move towards the flooding water. Who is more intelligent?
@@davids9520 Exactly my thought David. That's why animals (bugs etc) will out survive mankind.
@Starfire Horizon *"Well Noah Had To Build An Arc To Save The WHOLE Lot From Drowning, Sooo... Who's Smarter?"*
Yeah, but Noah did all the work, and the animals just traipsed up when everything was all ready to go. So, I don't know...
Under bridges over water is where I have seen the largest versions of any species of spider. The food sources are way more prevalent for them near water
No way I'd be standing there barefooted with all those spiders 😱😱
Agreed! The first spider I saw I would be like; okay have fun, I'm outta here. Ugh, I don't do spiders. 😬
Those spiders are more worried about getting away from the water and protecting there egg sack.
He's an absolute spartan
Poor spiders probably scared stiff wondering what's going on, some fine big ones though, I wouldn't be scared if the big ones like huntsman or tarantula,it's the little redbacks I'd be worried about, not easy seen, glad we don't get them in Scotland 🏴
Waters rising,
bridge could collapse….
“AAAARGGGHH!!!…
SPIDERS!”
-Humans
Waters rising,
bridge could collapse….
“AAAARGGGHH!!!
PANICKED HUMANS!”
-Spiders
You are doing a great service to the people with disabilities that can't get out often or cannot get out. Thanks Aaron, you are a bloody legend.
Thanks for thinking about us.
Bloody legend? Is that a good thing?
@@lorenengland4079 in UK/AUS terms, it’s a bloody good thing.
I'm surprised you are on the bridge. The force of water is amazing. That bridge could fail catastrophically without warning.
Ikr. That's what I was thinking.
What's more amazing that it took him to the end of the video to realize where the insects were coming from....Mother Nature is the strongest of all mothers.
Or stand for decades...
that bridge has copped dozens of those floods,
true
The bugs were coming from the underside of the bridge. That's where they all make their webs to catch other insects to eat. But once that water started to rise and breach their hiding spots they had to crawl to higher ground to survive. Very common on bridges with rising flood waters, that's why you never go barefoot during floods!
Some of them yes, but the majority of them comes from the debris that crash into the bridge as he said in the end of the video - wonder why it took him so long to figure that out.
@@jrand2631 True....notice that a lot of the float wood is dead river oak that collapses easily from the river banks. Critters love making their homes in the dead wood and are jumping off as it crumples with the force.
@@flamingfrancis Exactly.
ah thought it was Trolls that lived under bridges at least they do in Norway aye !
@@thomasw.glasgow7449 Fun fact, trolls in fairy tales that live under bridges are based on the insane/angry and dangerous homeless that have nowhere else to go.
I'm shocked they continued to allow traffic on the bridge. It seems like a very unsafe situation. Also, just because they are allowing it doesn't mean you should do it.
That’s what you call a free country, do whatever you want. You die it’s on you lmao
T. H. I’m absolutely shocked as well! IT DOES seem like a very unsafe condition to be in!
Theres a good chance these people are running around collecting family to get to safety.
They were not allowing it....they had no idea what was going on ,,,,as usual
I was shocked pedestrians stayed on the bridge.
Amazing! I like how friendly you were with the old timer. Such respect you gave!!
Here in Germany, heavy iron bridges made of steel collapsed in the Ahr Valley last year because rubbish and trees had accumulated under them. In the end, road bridges sank and the iron trough bridge of the railway was carried away 30 meters only by the force of the water. 133 people lost their life only in that area, at the end in Germany died 184 people. That's why my heart always gets heavy when I see people on bridges filming garbage getting stuck underneath and piling up...
Sounds more like corrosion of the beams or erosion around Bridge supports.
@@kinte1870 Nope, no, that was the tremendous water pressure that weighed against the bridge. It acted like a dam with all the rubbish that was caught and wedged underneath (trees, cars, caravans...). Then three of them in a row and you had a water wall of between 7 and 14 (!) meters rushing through the valley. Then no bridge could hold up. It had been raining heavily for days, more than 200mm per HOUR on one square meter. There was simply far too much water that accumulated in the mountainous area.
This are pictures from the first few days after the flood:
ruclips.net/video/0YdCiEqePJw/видео.html
@@chrismuller9289 I'm watching the video now and was about to comment that it was probably the force of the moving water. No way I'd be on that bridge with that much water going under. I don't think people understand how much water weighs in volume
@@kinte1870 jepp, it's like as a dam bursts. If one bridge is down the following down that river have no chance to stand that preasure.
@@kinte1870 This one has english subtitles and you can see that iron railway bridge roundabout far away from the origin place...
ruclips.net/video/4UgRqJG-cYM/видео.html
One thing I've noticed about borderline living in the creeks almost all day every day in Oklahoma:
Before heavy rains, almost every spider will move to higher ground to avoid heavy storms. A few hours beforehand to a week or so after heavy rain, you will find hundreds of them all over the place just in or just outside of the floodplain. It's a sight to behold when you walk up on reliably 50-60 funnel webs that are all visible from where your standing, knowing that every single one has a spider in it. They build their funnels from ground level to about 6 feet high in the trees at most, so your literally surrounded.
Sounds like a nightmare!
I grew up outside a small town in SW Oklahoma and every time that we were going to have flooding, you could watch all of the tarantulas a few days before the rain that would be going to higher ground; there were 1,000's of them!!😐
@@tandiparent1906 they certainly are best weather tellers that's for sure
That’s truly cursed.
Listening to Australians talking about spiders is hilarious. It’s like the British and weather. Instead of “hey mate, nasty weather!” it’s “seen the size of this bastard! Look out there’s one on your leg” 😆
Took about fifty swipes down to find a citizen news item..
RUclips flooded with news company items.. This was ten times better than any of them.
Cheers from Ireland
Even such small, simple creatures value their lives & try to save themselves. I find it very moving. 😥
Well yeah, why wouldn’t they?
I imagine that everyone allergic to bugs and arachnids also find it very moving.
Thank you so much for the spider warning. They were very creepy on that pole. I live in California, I've never seen bugs like that. And, to see someone in bare feet!! I hope they don't bite. Very interesting video, thanks for posting.
I love how the spiders and bugs look at you like hey man don’t squish me I just survived a flood, I’m a refuge bug
The Spiders are carrying their Egg Cocoons with them . Amazing . Survival 101 . Those Beasties would have been living UNDER the Bridge Arches .
Also maybe from the wood piling up on the water by the bridge?
@@RGBEAT . Yep ! Also likely .
Yup spiders see everything. Four pairs of eyes I hope all the critters made it
You don’t even know what your talking about dude
Freakazoid
Mesmerizing! I could watch it all day. From my recliner of course. No way could I walk out onto the bridge. That’s just combining two of my worst phobias. Bridges and drowning. Floods, in my opinion, are the most awe inspiring yet terrifying of natural disasters. That’s saying a lot since I live smack in the middle of tornado alley.
yeah I don't think I want to be near a tornado, scary stuff
Bridges and drowning. What about the Spiders ? Lmao. I'd cross any bridge to get away from one. That's the thing with floods. I'm in Australia. They take and carry away everything. 💜. No way, living in the Middle of that valley. I'd hate to be thinking all the time,that a Tornado 🌪️ will suck up the house at any time. Hasn't the US had more tornadoes in the past month,than any other ? Ive heard from FB friends that the winds have been very strong.
@@WindsorBaitAndTackle yea tornadoes suck. Less predictable than hurricanes/cyclones/typhoons and while less wide spread than them are, imo, far more terrifying. There is no "evacuate" for a tonrado much less an ef5. Ef5 protocol is "get in the basement and fucking pray"
@@WindsorBaitAndTackle are any of the spiders venomous
@@spankthemonkey3437 I don't know about the ones that were shown, but Australia has some of the deadliest.
I live in Melbourne but have friends who live in this flood prone area so thanks for the footage. As many have written, most of these bugs come from under the bridge and some have even come from the driftwood. Fortunately most of these seem to be harmless ie: golden orb spiders (and its relatives), huntsman, wolf spiders, common house black spiders and brown spiders, crickets, ants, grasshoppers/locusts but, fortunately, no redbacks or funnel webs. Nice footage - and well-focussed too. I remember watching Force Ten from Navarone and the dam/bridge collapse and thinking it was well done - but this real life. Thumbs up.
Good reference usage of that movie.
[screams]
Crickets and spiders living together. It's the apocalypse ! - Professor Vincmam
Wow, the speed of that water is incredible. Stay safe out there. Thoughts and prayers from South Australia to all.
Spiders: Straya!
When an Australian says "what is that?!" You know it's messed up 🤣
🤣🤣Spiders we don't know about can be nasty AF. Especially up in that region where funnel webs and their ilk abound.
lol great comment
Great video! I found it so relaxing to watch you filming the flooding river while standing on a bridge in the rain that I fell asleep. I woke up two hours later and watched the last half. Thank you.
All those spiders and insects lived under the bridge. Some of the spiders are carrying their sacs full of spider babies. Nature trying to survive. Thanks for the show. Prayers to the people putting up with damages from the storms.
Most of those spiders and insects will most probably be coming of the tree branches that are getting pushed against the bridge. 😅
lol the spider plot twist was brilliant
Every year you give us good coverage of the floods. Thanks Arron ,great job buddy.
Thanks for sharing this. I attended Richmond High School in the 90’s and although I didn’t grow up in the Hawkesbury and no longer reside there (I have lived in CW NSW for over 20yrs now) I will always call the area home. Watching what has been happening is heartbreaking.
Me too, I lived in Windsor, went to St Mathews, lived on the road where Windsor Mushrooms was and Parker's Horse Stud and left soon after the floods in '62 I think it was, we had a turkey farm and Smith's had the chicken farm. Moved our turkeys out so others could put their furniture inside the turkey shed, their houses ended up water to the eaves. We were cut off and I remember the army duck coming up out of the water and bringing us food. The rail line at Vinyard was washed away. I also remember The Doctors House where Dr Skinner lived and had his surgery ... All great and vivid memories, I live in WA now, have done for 56 years and is home but when asked where I'm from, it's always Windsor, so many memories there, the cornfields both sides of the road just before the old bridge and pub going into Windsor.
"Man Gets Swept Away Looking At Spiders and Bugs"
Mate. Thanks for filming this. Ive always wanted to see this
I was six and living in Windsor during the 1957 flood and it was a big one. We lived on Mileham St, up near the water towers, so were safe, but I remember walking down Ham St and looking toward toward the Richmond side and looking at the inland sea!
Came for the flood, stayed for the spiders!
Incredible footage.i find the insect and arachnid exodus quite fascinating too.
Wow, awesome vid (besides the spiders lol) was going to say they must have been living under the bridge but they got moved along by the water, but what you said also makes sense so maybe a bit of both. So many that I havent seen before and never want to again! Also the power of the flowing water is amazing. You dont relise it until something like this happens. Anyway take care yeah, im in Melbourne watching all this unfold on the news, my heart goes out to everyone who have lost. I wish I could get up there to help everyone clean up. Peace! X
Floods, fires, spiders on heads and bare feet. This is Australia.
Hello from Phoenix, Arizona. This video takes me back to early February 1980 when the Salt River through Phoenix got to flood stage. The bridges were small and Phoenix was bisected by the river with only two bridges being able to remain open. I witnessed a similar scene at the 35th Avenue bridge across the Salt River. The water was not as high, but was faster flowing because of a bottleneck just east of the bridge. The bridges that remained open were the Central Avenue and Mill Avenue bridges. The I-10 bridge was able to remain open, but one side closed due to the southbound lanes beginning to sink.
Hey, Shawn! I'm watching from the Phoenix area too, thinking how weird all that water looked,! 🤯
I was there too ... what a mess --- I was on the Mesa side
I remember that. I lived in Laveen and worked near Bell & 35th Ave.
thanks for watching mate, I fascinated with the fishing and hunting in the US and watch a lot of stuff from Arizona, awesome part of the world
I remember years ago standing just west of the Mill Ave. bridge watching all of the trash zip by. The river was flooded and had cut into a landfill upstream in Mesa.
I have a rule in life: Never slow down an old person crossing a bridge that is MOST DEFINITELY going to be underwater in the very near future.
This guys hilarious! 🤣 if I ever make it out to Australia I want to have a beer with this guy! Cheers 🍻
any time buddy and I can promise to take you on an adventure no tourist operator could give you
@@WindsorBaitAndTackle I’ll have to take you up on that some time!
😱 All those spiders!! And a person had no shoes on!!
You were a champ to carry on filming with them so close to you.
Got to say , love the Accent 😊
thank you
I am impressed at the bravery displayed in this video.
Much respect also for warning about *SPIDERS 🕸🕷*
Good old Aussies.
Mad floods going on, but still time to check out some spiders with another classic Aussie quote " look at that, wtf is that "
It's creepy... But, those spiders are BEAUTIFUL !!! 😍
,It was great to see so many different insects and spiders carrying their eggs with them to get out of the water. The river is incredibly wide and it was interesting to see the tree branches and flotsam going under the bridge. I like the Australian wildlife. The water got so high. It would be interesting to see this river in different weather too!
I think those spiders were living under the bridge, but the rising water forced them to leave.
i would push all this spiders back in the water!
I felt sorry for the
spiders and bugs .😢.
What a life ! There you
are ,minding your own
business under the
bridge, and whoosh !
A huge flood ! 😢🕷️
And you have to
climb up and huddle
on the fence ! 🕷️
🇬🇧💕🕸️💕🕷️😢🐜🇬🇧
@@rosemariemann1719 that's sweet of you to think about them. I'm sure many of them made it to a higher safe place.
Millions of spiders and this dude is walking around bare foot!😳 big brass balls, dude!!
Ah, they’re only spiders! They don’t eat much. 🤣
Exactly what I thought!
@@joecausey8508 and don’t forget the red belly black snakes, or the brown snakes and the deadliest of all, the eastern Taipan! 🤣 Spiders! Least of ya worries. 😉
Amazing how the spiders & insects bailed ship onto the bridge!
Any spiders on that bridge know it’s an apocalypse on the way
Getting outta Dodge … or at least trying for higher ground
Amazing footage of arachnids and that epic flood - the speed of that water is fearsome
Thanks for posting this. We in WA are sending prayers 🙏 Please stay safe.
Edit: the speed of the flooding is amazing. When the swaying of the bridge was mentioned 😳 The insects escaping en masse was incredible.
Interestingly we have had next to no rain in Melbourne for 8 weeks. A light shower today and Saturday, that's it. This storm system has sucked all the rain into one ball north of the Dividing Ranges and is sitting above the east coast.
Love those thoughts and prayers!
The best way to make yourself feel better about doing nothing, by doing exactly that, nothing. I'm sure those thoughts and prayers helped fill sandbags and other quantifiable endeavors. We appreciate it! ;)
Lol you’re imaginary sky fairy won’t hear your prayers his to busy in Africa
@@waynebfr8953 it will be interesting when you stand before him, mate!! Another 2020 troll, no content in your channel or your head!
@@triarb5790 That is weird. I would have thought Melbourne had some storms.
NOTE: The giant spiders are not Huntsmans, but the Giant Water Spider
(Megadolomedes australianus)
They love to live on bridges (usually close to water) so they can catch fish and tadpoles. They are pretty harmless, although those ones had egg sacks so might be more aggressive.
They can also glide on water when it's calm. Much bigger than the average Huntsman.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
"they can glide on water when it's calm". Nope !
I saw *warn* in the title, and thought it would say “warning flashing lights” or “warning possibly disturbing content”. I’m glad to see there was a spider warning, definitely helps me mentally prepare for that. I hate spiders.
Great video. I don't know which freaks me out more, the raging torrent of water or the creepy crawlies ! 😱😱
I think if I'd seen how high the water was, I wouldn't have stepped foot onto that bridge, let alone ventured half way across it! The video maker was damned lucky there wasn't a sudden surge or 'flood crest'- he risked being swept away. That water didn't look as if it was moving very fast, but it can pack quite a wallop, and it's all too easy to underestimate both the weight and power of water like that.
What do you expect, they’re Arse-trailians
Standing there would not be my first choice.
I wouldn't have been on that bridge.
There he is filming the river and SPIDERS and low and behold no shoes on 😂😂👍👍👍👍
Recently subscribed I like the way you care about our systems well done mate it's a eye opener 🤙
thank you
@Hunters fishing adventures, you won't be disappointed. Aaron is the genuine article.
I LOVE spiders! Thank you for not killing them!
12:30 "the fuck is that" got me rolling
I imagine this bridge, at this time, would have been of interest to entomologists. I never saw so many huge spiders, of different species, out in public together at the same time.
Noticed the spiders about 5 min before you did lol. The sacks are eggs I remember being down the lowlands as a kid as the water was rising & hundreds of thousands of spiders where all on the edge of the water 😱. Bloody hell they shut the bridge early these days. It use to be when the water started trickling over. I saw the water in the pub. Thanks for sharing
👍🏻👍🏻🙃🙃
It’s hilarious this guy is worried about this spiders more than he is the bridge collapsing! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
My heart goes out to all those affected. Hang in there..
The insects are amazing... the rare few survivors of this flood path. Little heroes
The spiders came down the river on the wood and debris that's floating down. They instinctively look for anything above the flood, so when what they're on hits the bridge, they climb up onto the bridge as quickly as they can.
Floods can be really scary stuff. Very destructive and powerful.
The spiders came mostly from under the bridge.
Thanks so much for the constant updates mate
I'm glad you realised the bugs were off the trees and stuff. I enjoyed this video 😃
Please be careful mate and stay safe. Bridges have collapsed and been washed out up here in Queensland.
What is really amazing is that this bridge was still open!!!!!!🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
Man I hate the flooding but love these updates.
Man I hate crabs but they love the rain
@@ichista 🤣🤣🤣
In storm Desmond a copper stood in the middle one of our old stone bridges in Cumbria. He stood there, stopping the traffic crossing due to very high water.
The sandstone bridge collapsed and crushed/drown him in the catastrophe.
Barefoot🦶??? With all of those disgusting 8 legged creepy crawlers🕷🕷🕷 running around???😳👀😵💫 I am O-U-T!!! 🏃♀️ 🏃🏃♂️😆
I live near Richmond, Virginia and we get flooding from time to time. Sending my prayers and best wishes!
thanks
People don't realize how fast rivers and creeks can rise and how incredibly dangerous they are. I live by a creek that empties into the river and when it rains, like it's doing right now, that creek it looks like that. Yet at least once or twice a year, some complete imbecile decides that is the perfect time to go tubing and the Sheriff department has to deploy the water rescue team to save them from being swept into the river and drowned in the low level dam.
Darwin.
Thank you from the US! You guys are so brave around bugs!! Go YOU!!👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I had my wife in my canoe and we were going to go under a bridge that had a couple of feet headway but once we got close I saw literally thousands of spiders clinging to the top of the concrete...About face..
Would not have been pretty... I could see her tipping the canoe trying to get away.
Lol, that so would have been me also! I climbed into my husbands lap while he was driving just to get away from a big spider.
@@dawnstanley1733 oh...in that case there is a chance he planted that spider there...
@@zackleewright6885 lol
Lol... that Would have been me, trying To get away from the spiders.
AAAHGHHHH!!
🙀😯🥵😳😱😬😩.
I have major arachnophobia 🥺😕😩. At seeing the first spider, I would've been so OFF of that bridge, like right now.
Some people say the spiders and creepy-crawlies came off all the trees and stuff floating down river. Many did, but the vast majority came from under the bridge were they live.
Anyway, to the guy who shot this video, thank you very much for your work... and bravery for standing up to those little monsters. 😒🤢
Those spiders creeped me out😮 good video 👍
The old bridge was extremely unstable and a virtually a suspension bridge with only few pylons securing it. I’d say this flood proof bridge has withstood two floods and has done it’s job. All the local truckies could feel the old one rolling under their trucks weight.
the new bridge is a lot safer, unfortunately we need an overhead bridge across northo to make us flood proof
@@WindsorBaitAndTackle It can be done like the Jim Anderson Bridge on Hawkesbury Valley Way from Mulgrave to Windsor.
Amazing the power of water..
Could watch that all day, great post
thank you most comments are giving it to me but I only filmed and shared this for the same reason as your comment.
Looks like the railings are designed to fold down flat if hit by debris. They're hinged but held up by another bolt designed to snap under strain.
Mate born in the hawkesbury 1982 I only seen it flood once I think it 1988 or 89 yes when it floods the water level can get really high. Actually a long time ago the north Richmond pub use to be where the service station was, the flood level was very high and that's why they moved the pub to higher ground.but thanks for the update on what's happening.many of my friends still live there.
This sure brings back sad and horrifying memories of the flood that decimated my hometown back in 1982 So sorry for the loss for your community. I hope no one got hurt. They sure left that bridge open way too long. Duh
Hi Aaron long time mate since we spoke. Great Vid
These are the spiders that fall on you when you hang a lure up in the trees. Cheers Daryl you lent me your boat for a break comp!!
Yeah really appreciate these update vids mate.
the bridge got destroyed in such a dramatic fashion that I was brought to tears. u can see it at the 100 minute mark. Freaking great! Thanks
Now you know what lives in the dark under the bridges.
We used to call them trolls living under the bridge
"i was filming the river. now i just cant stop filming all the bugs" 🤣
This reminds me of my cities great flood back in 2008. I'm in the States and after six straight days of rain and the remnants of a tropical depression the main bridge in my hometown flooded over. That never had happened in all my years living here.
I was holding my breath with all of you on it❤
I've never seen that many spiders in one place. Om gosh, I wouldn't have been able to stay on that bridge. I'm deathly scared of spiders. And that guy who was barefooted. Yikes.
Thank you for the spider warning. 😨😰😫
This bridge is sinking, hey look a spider. Epic adhd moment.
Amazing watching your recent videos and coming back to this and realizing how much worse it was this last time around.
I'm assuming most of those came from underneath the bridge or on floating branches. Did you happen to see any bugs on the trees along the river bank?
Geez, that's a lot of water. Stay safe, ok. Thanks for sharing your video.
Best footage on you tube.
thank you
I was in the Mississippi floods of 1993. Running water positively terrifies me. This video shot my stress level through the roof. To me filming that was not brave, but foolhardy. It was negligent of the public safety officials not to close the bridge to both road traffic and pedestrians.
This went from flood video to my worst nightmare, real quick 😂 mate, I don't know whether they lived under that bridge or in the trees that came down the river 😅 hope your house stayed dry bud.. Shocking how fast that water came up...
Actually watch the whole thing lol. Good captures. ✌️💛😃
“I was filmin’ the river and now I can’t stop filmin’ the bugs.” 🦗🕷
The nice thing about Australia is not many snakes. The spiders killed them all. 🤣
Great video. Cheers, mate.
There were most likely bugs living under the bridge too that climbed up. and others rode the wood down the river till they could find a spot to crawl off. now you can see how species move from one area to another.
Awesome video. The spiders gave me the creepy crawlies.
Those spiders and what not all live on and under the bridge in every nook and cranny. We've just had over 100ml in about 4.5hrs just north of Mudgee NSW. Lucky we are in the mtns.
Spiders on the trees, get off the ride at the bridge. 😆 nice footage! Powerful, force of water display!
Your in a world of hurt people. Much love from Arizona USA
This video went from pretty interesting to really freaking cool in zero seconds flat. I love all the spiders and bugs!!!! They are everywhere trying to escape the water. Wow!!!