Animals tend to seek high-ground during floods, to avoid drowning. Doesn't matter if it's a human or a tree, so beetles and spiders climb him and hide. Although he's happy that it's beetles and not snakes.
My brothers and some local kids went body boarding down the creek when it was flooding one time and they all ended up with a heap of spiders hitching rides with them.
I'd been saving to buy my kids new laptops for their upcoming birthdays and picked some up at a great sale price last weekend. Last update they were in Lismore on Tuesday afternoon.....
The 2 laptops I ordered were on their way being delivered. It's now Sunday and the last update on the tracking info was from last Tuesday in Lismore, right before all this flooding.