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Identify this spider?
Last night there was a spider in my house (Central Florida) and it was one that I have not seen before. It had SKINNY legs which were possibly just over an inch long and its torso (thorax/abdomen) was about 1/2 to 3/4 inches wide/long. The torso of it was not long, it was about the same length all the way around.. When I first stood up to try to catch it, it got flat and lied on the floor. As soon as i got closer, it ran very fast. I eventually caught it by sucking it up with a vacuum. Please identify this for me… I know its not poisonous or anything
Its body was all gray
Vacuums
Loud bang after closing a window?
I had one window open in each bedroom at opposite ends of the house. The wind picked up, billowing the curtains on the north-facing window. It was cold, so I quickly closed the window. Approximately 5 seconds later a very loud and sharp bang was heard. It was loud enough that the windows rattled slightly, not unlike a sonic boom when the space shuttle is coming in for landing (i live in central Florida, near the same latitude as Cape Canaveral), but it was not a boom, more of a pop. It sounded like it came from within the room and did not echo at all like when the neighbors occasionally discharge firearms (we’re right on the edge of the woods, and some people hate bears). I thought maybe a severe electrical short had occurred in the air conditioning unit just outside the north wall, but there is no visible damage and everything is working fine. No damage has been detected to any of the windows, either. At this point I am thinking that the strong gust of wind blowing in from the north, and out the only other open window, had created some kind of jet stream. Upon abruptly closing the north window, a vacuum was created in the room as momentum continued carrying air out the still-open other window. The vacuum then collapsed, causing the most unusual bang. Does this make sense?