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Edited Date/Time 1/27/2012 2:10am
The Atlantic's Focus section has a gallery of submissions to National Geo's photo contest. There are some cool pics, but this one was a grabber!



http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/11/national-geographic-photo-contest-2011/100187/
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scooter5002 11/14/2011 11:24am
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That's friggin awesome!
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MX45 11/14/2011 12:17pm
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Some pictures are better when you read the description. This one is my nightmare fuel.


"An unexpected side-effect of the 2010 flooding in parts of Sindh, Pakistan, was that millions of spiders climbed up into the trees to escape the rising flood waters; because of the scale of the flooding and the fact that the water took so long to recede, many trees became cocooned in spiders webs. People in the area had never seen this phenomenon before, but they also reported that there were less mosquitos than they would have expected, given the amount of standing water that was left. Not being bitten by mosquitoes was one small blessing for people that had lost everything in the floods. (© Russell Watkins) "
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SEEMEFIRST 11/14/2011 8:17pm
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The first one doesn't look real. Not saying it isn't, but there are no clouds except for the tornadic one. I'd say it is more than rare to have that clear of a sky around a storm that could spawn such a twister.
There are usually really high columns above such a storm as well.

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Sandberm 11/14/2011 8:29pm
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MX45 wrote:
Some pictures are better when you read the description. This one is my nightmare fuel. [img]https://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/ngpc111111/s_n08_4102011-.jpg[/img] "An unexpected side-effect of the 2010 flooding in parts of...
Some pictures are better when you read the description. This one is my nightmare fuel.


"An unexpected side-effect of the 2010 flooding in parts of Sindh, Pakistan, was that millions of spiders climbed up into the trees to escape the rising flood waters; because of the scale of the flooding and the fact that the water took so long to recede, many trees became cocooned in spiders webs. People in the area had never seen this phenomenon before, but they also reported that there were less mosquitos than they would have expected, given the amount of standing water that was left. Not being bitten by mosquitoes was one small blessing for people that had lost everything in the floods. (© Russell Watkins) "
What a strange photo and a nightmare indeed.

Anybody else here have nightmares about bugs? Spiders and such crawling on the ceiling of your bedroom, falling off onto your bed till you are covered in creepy crawley bugs? Its my recurring nightmare. In real life i have no problems with any bugs/ spiders etc, but they haunt my sleep sometimes.
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FreshTopEnd 11/14/2011 8:54pm
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SEEMEFIRST wrote:
The first one doesn't look real. Not saying it isn't, but there are no clouds except for the tornadic one. I'd say it is more than...
The first one doesn't look real. Not saying it isn't, but there are no clouds except for the tornadic one. I'd say it is more than rare to have that clear of a sky around a storm that could spawn such a twister.
There are usually really high columns above such a storm as well.
It's a volcanic eruption. The lighting is from the static with the ash and turbulence driven into the air.
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SEEMEFIRST 11/14/2011 9:01pm
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SEEMEFIRST wrote:
The first one doesn't look real. Not saying it isn't, but there are no clouds except for the tornadic one. I'd say it is more than...
The first one doesn't look real. Not saying it isn't, but there are no clouds except for the tornadic one. I'd say it is more than rare to have that clear of a sky around a storm that could spawn such a twister.
There are usually really high columns above such a storm as well.
FreshTopEnd wrote:
It's a volcanic eruption. The lighting is from the static with the ash and turbulence driven into the air.
Well my dumbass stands corrected then.
Living in tornado ally, that's what I saw, a trailer killer.
...Bad ass photo.
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Mr. G 11/14/2011 9:33pm
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MX45 wrote:
Some pictures are better when you read the description. This one is my nightmare fuel. [img]https://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/ngpc111111/s_n08_4102011-.jpg[/img] "An unexpected side-effect of the 2010 flooding in parts of...
Some pictures are better when you read the description. This one is my nightmare fuel.


"An unexpected side-effect of the 2010 flooding in parts of Sindh, Pakistan, was that millions of spiders climbed up into the trees to escape the rising flood waters; because of the scale of the flooding and the fact that the water took so long to recede, many trees became cocooned in spiders webs. People in the area had never seen this phenomenon before, but they also reported that there were less mosquitos than they would have expected, given the amount of standing water that was left. Not being bitten by mosquitoes was one small blessing for people that had lost everything in the floods. (© Russell Watkins) "
Holt crap. One late night I turn on the light and start to shuffle through the sheets, my wife asks "What are you doing?" " I thought I felt something" I said. She LEAPED out of bed. WHAT?! Never saw her move so fast..........
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FreshTopEnd 11/15/2011 8:12am
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One could get lost for days at the NASA site that has their still and video stuff. The people who put together the video above did a great job.
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jndmx 11/15/2011 11:50am
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Amazing stuff.....thanks for posting that link.
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tunedlength 11/15/2011 9:51pm
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motosmith wrote:
[img]https://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/ngpc111111/s_n04_2002011-.jpg[/img]
Clever
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jconc1941 11/16/2011 9:26am
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first image is sick even but def a chance could not be real and the spiders in the tree is def freaky! haha
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BUTCH 11/16/2011 6:30pm
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Awesome!

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