After the storm....SNAKES!!

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After the storm....SNAKES!!

#1 Postby LCfromFL » Tue Sep 07, 2004 8:05 pm

The rain and flooding are making the snakes look for higher ground - one chose inside my pool's screen room (thankfully it was non-poisonous - just a black snake) and another one was perched at the end of my driveway (copperhead - very poisonous and very mean!).

I do NOT like snakes!

With the creek still rising, I think they'll get worse before they get better.

Ugh!
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#2 Postby PurdueWx80 » Tue Sep 07, 2004 8:07 pm

Ahh...creepy. Makes me shiver just thinkin' about it.
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#3 Postby simplykristi » Tue Sep 07, 2004 8:08 pm

UGH!!!!! You don't need the snakes,, especially the venomous ones! Be careful!

Kristi
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#4 Postby Canelaw99 » Tue Sep 07, 2004 8:16 pm

Ewwww!!!! I HATE snakes!
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#5 Postby Matthew5 » Tue Sep 07, 2004 8:18 pm

I really really really hate snakes! :eek:
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#6 Postby Cid 98 » Tue Sep 07, 2004 8:23 pm

We're having the same problems with them here in SC. My dogs cornered one on the porch yesterday.
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#7 Postby MBismyPlayground » Tue Sep 07, 2004 8:36 pm

OH MY GOSH........never even thought about those critters slinking in...YICK.... now will be watching every footstep and thinking they have got into my car, crawling up my legs......eewww


:2gunfire: Snakes
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#8 Postby anjou » Tue Sep 07, 2004 9:10 pm

shhh... they eat the insects :sick:
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#9 Postby CajunMama » Tue Sep 07, 2004 9:26 pm

watch out for fire ants too in flooded areas
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#10 Postby CFL » Tue Sep 07, 2004 9:28 pm

Just another reason why I really don't want to get hit this year . . .
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#11 Postby Canelaw99 » Tue Sep 07, 2004 9:31 pm

anjou wrote:shhh... they eat the insects :sick:



They make great shoes, purses, wallets, and belts too!
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#12 Postby anjou » Tue Sep 07, 2004 9:32 pm

Have there been any alligator stories? I promised my spouse an alligator story would emerge eventually, back around the time Charley hit.

All I saw was a picture of Ft. Myers beach residents towing a beached manatee back to water, down the main street, on a big piece of board. But I know there MUST be alligator stories...

:eek:
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#13 Postby cape_escape » Tue Sep 07, 2004 9:53 pm

We went through this after Charley. My son was in his bathroom and said there was a snake in there with him .he's always kidding me so I didn't believe him. So, I went to see and sure enough there it was! Just a wee-little- black snake about the size of a worm. Well, we got rid of that one and then the next night, I went to get into the shower and there was one in my shower! My husband tried ot catch it, but it went back down the drain. So, later, it came back, in my shower again! Hubby managed to get it and flush it...But, it was very creepy! I'm from Ohio...and we don't see snakes that much up there!
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#14 Postby Sean in New Orleans » Tue Sep 07, 2004 10:07 pm

During Betsy, in 1965, in New Orleans, there is video of hundreds of mocassins swimming all around in the streets, between people's legs in waste high boots....all over the place. It is horrifying to see so many snakes in these videos. I hate snakes, as well, but, they get very disturbed during high water and have no where to go..they just swim around!
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#15 Postby mijakamaj » Tue Sep 07, 2004 10:42 pm

Sean in New Orleans wrote:During Betsy, in 1965, in New Orleans, there is video of hundreds of mocassins swimming all around in the streets, between people's legs in waste high boots....all over the place. It is horrifying to see so many snakes in these videos. I hate snakes, as well, but, they get very disturbed during high water and have no where to go..they just swim around!


I am in Hoke Co., NC and due to all of this rain, I suppose, we have had two of these nasty buggers in our yard. I abhor snakes but cottonmouths are the worst of them all. I have never seen so many snakes out and about in my life and I have lived here all of my life. I think I would rather deal with a gator than a cottonmouth. I think.
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#16 Postby Wake4est » Tue Sep 07, 2004 10:48 pm

LC- Got bit by a copperhead on the hand once. Not a fun experience. FLA should hire the pied piper, or at least Steve Irwin. :D
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#17 Postby anjou » Tue Sep 07, 2004 10:50 pm

mijakamaj wrote:
Sean in New Orleans wrote:I think I would rather deal with a gator than a cottonmouth. I think.


Maybe not. :eek: Take a gander at the one below...

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/gatordeer.asp
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#18 Postby Mattie » Tue Sep 07, 2004 10:54 pm

Just one thing to note in these high water areas - they also get into the sewage system and it has been told that some people find them in their commodes. So, turn the light on and look before you sit. . .

true story.
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#19 Postby anjou » Tue Sep 07, 2004 10:55 pm

Whereas, you are unlikely to find a gator's head in the toilet - unless there was a really, really severe football party the night before. :wink:
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#20 Postby Aimless » Wed Sep 08, 2004 12:38 am

anjou....rofl...

Thanks...I need that .
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