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The Stuff of Nightmares!!!

CrazyKittyLvr2 — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 22:54:20 GMT

A man in Abliene, Texas was having work done on his house and a worker went under the house to check something and saw 3 or 4 rattlesnakes. The owner called a company that removes snakes. They removed 45 Diamondback rattlesnakes from under the house.

I would be out of that house so fast your head would spin. Not afraid of snakes in general but under or in house, nope.

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SXMGirl — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 23:00:42 GMT

@CrazyKittyLvr2 That is a nightmare! I think at that point I would want the house burned down, and I would be moving as far away as possible. The older that I get, the more phobias I seem to have and snakes fall right in there.

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Citrine1 — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 23:00:43 GMT

Well if I ever needed a reason to not move to Texas, you just gave it to me. Holy heck!

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Kachina624 — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 23:01:22 GMT

Abilene is in prime rattlesnake country. It's not unusual for people to come across "nests" of them, usually in old buildings without much human traffic. They're great for keeping the rodent population down.

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hsawaknow — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 23:09:07 GMT

OMG, we have rattlers in Northern California and when I am out for a walk on a trail I sometimes will scare myself an turn around. We had quite a few snake bites last year. I hate em.

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nana59 — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 23:28:40 GMT

i'd move to an apartment on the 20th floor!! maybe then i'd be able to sleep.....maybe....

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GSPgirl — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 23:34:31 GMT

@CrazyKittyLvr2 wrote:
A man in Abliene, Texas was having work done on his house and a worker went under the house to check something and saw 3 or 4 rattlesnakes. The owner called a company that removes snakes. They removed 45 Diamondback rattlesnakes from under the house.
I would be out of that house so fast your head would spin. Not afraid of snakes in general but under or in house, nope.

Don’t they keep coming back to the same house?

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sidsmom — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 23:42:38 GMT

And it’s extra dangerous this time of year,

when their venom hasn’t been released all winter.

FULL dose, if bit.

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luvmybeetle — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 00:43:12 GMT

Years ago we lived in a very out in the country type area and one of the neighbors a few streets down had snakes in the walls of their house. They said sometimes they would wake up to get a drink from the kitchen and there were snakes slithering around. Eventually the house burned down. I was so glad to move from the area.

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september — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 00:58:23 GMT

I recently took a first aid coarse in my area (required for my volunteer job) and learned our local hospital keeps just one antivenom dose for rattlesnakes, in stock, because it is pricey! So if you go to that hospital on a day when someone else has already used up the supply...you have to be airlifted to another hospital.

I try to stay far away from snakes. Most of the ones I see are harmless, but I do see rattlesnakes a few times a year.

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haddon9 — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 01:02:49 GMT

@CrazyKittyLvr2 wrote:
A man in Abliene, Texas was having work done on his house and a worker went under the house to check something and saw 3 or 4 rattlesnakes. The owner called a company that removes snakes. They removed 45 Diamondback rattlesnakes from under the house.
I would be out of that house so fast your head would spin. Not afraid of snakes in general but under or in house, nope.

OMG!! Yes that is really a NIGHTMARE!!

I would be afraid of them coming back at some point even if the company removed them all!!

I remember reading a story many years ago about something similar in the pines of NJ. It was a new neighborhood that was built on a rattlesnake (one rarely hears of rattlesnakes in NJ) nesting area.

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OKPrincess — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 01:14:41 GMT

I promise you I will have nightmares tonight and forever. I shouldn’t read stuff like this!!

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cactusgal — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 01:14:48 GMT

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missy1 — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 02:24:26 GMT

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/03/19/texas-homeowners-45-rattlesnakes-under-house/3220089002/

yikes!

There's an 17 minute video on capturing all the snakes.

The biggest was 5 1/2 feet long.

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colliemom4 — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 02:50:55 GMT

@missy1 wrote:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/03/19/texas-homeowners-45-rattlesnakes-under-house/3220089002/

yikes!

There's an 17 minute video on capturing all the snakes.
The biggest was 5 1/2 feet long.

I would move.

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Its Me LuLuBelle2 — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 03:02:41 GMT

Oh my gosh! Nightmares, the willies and the heebejeebies! I have an aversion to snakes that dates back to the first grade (and at 65, I remember it like it was yesterday). Some genius administrator thought bringing a snake handler to our elementary school to do a presentation in the auditorium for all of us would be a great idea. He handled several snakes on stage, explaining what they were, who was venomous and who was not. For his last "act" he wound a boa constrictor around himself and came down the stairs into the auditorium. Now I have to inject, I'm a late November baby, started school at 4 years old (graduated HS and started college at 17), small for my age at the time, and in first grade at the time of this demo of snakes I was 5. The snake charmer walked down the aisle. I was three or four rows from the stage, aisle seat, and this man decided that I, a little 5 year old girl, should be the one he draped a huge boa constrictor around. I freaked out. I was so terrified at the thought of that hideously ugly, huge snake on me, I ran out of the auditorium, peed my pants (yes, humiliated even at that young age), and was so hysterical my mom was called to come pick me up. That terrifying memory stays with me 60 years later AndI can assure you - I HATE SNAKES! Worse than that I' m truly paralyzed when I see them.

If the same incident happened today, the school district and the snake guy would be making a terrified 5 year old a multi-millionaire after all of the law suits were settled!

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luvzchiz — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 03:11:19 GMT

Ewee!

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RedTop — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 03:14:10 GMT

I would burn my house to the ground over snakes like that!

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colliemom4 — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 03:22:21 GMT

I saw a story of another house where a snake was in the toilet.

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Its Me LuLuBelle2 — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 03:43:56 GMT