Humans aren't the only ones trying to flee the floods in Wagga Wagga.
Thousands of spiders have crawled into farm fields in the city's northern outskirts to escape the swollen Murrumbidgee River.
The tiny arachnids have woven spectacular webs among the high grasslands, shrouding the paddocks in a vast sticky net.
Local children have been stopping to admire the eye-catching phenomenon and take photographs.
ninemsn
We are having alot of floads here in Australia and im gald I dont live anywhere near this place lol