#2385727 - 05/04/11 09:02 PM
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With the flood waters here snakes are popping up all over the place. People in the town I live in are reporting seeing water moccasins, copperheads, rattlers and other snakes in their yards for the first time in years. These flood waters are pushing them away from the river bottoms into higher ground and people's yards and houses.
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#2385733 - 05/04/11 09:05 PM
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#2385747 - 05/04/11 09:11 PM
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I just now talked to my cousins grandson who got home from helping sandbag houses all day. He said he saw no less than 18 water moccasins in the water and ever one in a low tree limb not 15 yards from him.
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#2385787 - 05/04/11 09:32 PM
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I've almost stepped on two black racers hunting in the last week. luckily they were just racers and ran.
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#2385788 - 05/04/11 09:33 PM
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I am sure there will be some displacement from the flood waters.
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#2385850 - 05/04/11 11:50 PM
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I would daresay the overwhelming majority of water mocassin sightings, outside the swamps of lousiana of course, are banded water snakes. To some folks every snake they see king coral spittin rattle mamba.
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#2385854 - 05/04/11 11:57 PM
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stik
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all i've seen is one lonely corn snake trying to come in the plant last wednesday.
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#2385859 - 05/05/11 12:06 AM
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I would daresay the overwhelming majority of water mocassin sightings, outside the swamps of lousiana of course, are banded water snakes. To some folks every snake they see king coral spittin rattle mamba.
Is that anything like a rattle headed coralmouth? 
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#2385861 - 05/05/11 12:08 AM
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smstone22
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Maybe they will freeze to death tonight lol
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#2385866 - 05/05/11 12:36 AM
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Hangnail
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I don't know about that redblood, some of the places I used to fish in West Tennessee were loaded with moccasins. During high water, I've seen well over a dozen within a couple of hundred feet along a levee.
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