its cottonmouth season

[Tail_Gunner]

Only dangerous snakes here in DA U.P. are the SNOW SNAKES:

.....INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MARQUETTE... MUNISING 414 PM EDT TUE APR 3 2007...BLIZZARD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT WEDNESDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MARQUETTE CONTINUES A BLIZZARD WARNING...WHICH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT WEDNESDAY.

A RAIN AND SNOW MIX WILL REDEVELOP THIS EVENING...THEN CHANGE TO ALL SNOW BY MIDNIGHT. LOOK FOR THE SNOW TO BE HEAVY AT TIMES WITH RATES OF ONE INCH PER HOUR OR MORE POSSIBLE. IN ADDITION...WINDS WILL INCREASE LATE TONIGHT WITH GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH... RESULTING IN BLIZZARD CONDITIONS AND VISIBILITIES NEAR ZERO AT TIMES. EXPECT ADDITIONAL SNOW AMOUNTS OF 10 TO 15 INCHES TONIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY WITH TOTALS OF UP TO 2 FEET OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN. THE GREATEST AMOUNTS WILL OCCUR FROM THE HURON MOUNTAINS THROUGH ISHPEMING AND NEGAUNEE AND SKANDIA...AND FROM TRENARY THROUGH THE PICTURED ROCKS NATIONAL LAKESHORE. SNOW WILL BEGIN TO DIMINISH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON...THOUGH WINDY CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST INTO WEDNESDAY NIGHT.

A BLIZZARD WARNING MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. FALLING AND BLOWING SNOW WITH STRONG WINDS AND POOR VISIBILITIES ARE LIKELY. THIS WILL LEAD TO WHITEOUT CONDITIONS...MAKING TRAVEL EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. ONLY TRAVEL IN THE EVENT OF AN EMERGENCY. ALSO...GIVEN THE EXPECTED WET SNOW AND STRONG WINDS...POWER OUTAGES ARE POSSIBLE.

Just a tad unusual, even by U.P. standards.

B.T.W.: I got the notice in the mail, camper's coming out of storage April 21. Snow will be long gone by then.

 

[powerboatr]

how did you kill it? looks nice and bloody.

flat spade to the head and neck area. one swift jab and off came his head

moma hit part of one this afternoon with the lawn tractor on the edge of our property where the grass is 3 -4 feet high....
sprinkled some snake away around hope it works..we dont need any more of them running around

 

[RoyBoy]

..we dont need any more of them running around

never saw a snake run, must be a sight

 

[hheynow]

Only dangerous snakes here in DA U.P. are the SNOW SNAKES

Snow snakes?

 

[dpantazis]

richard-

'dems the ones! man, you were lucky to get that close to get a picture. round here, ya gotta be either really dumb or really quick to get that shot. i know you're not dumb

dp

 

[Tbar]

hummmm.............tastes like chicken.


Tbar

 

[W4RLR]

we have all 4 of the big ones down here in bamaland.


rattlesnakes, cottonmouths, copperheads, the red-touchin-yella will kill a fella snake (cant think of it's name)

the only good snake is a dead one.

That would be a coral snake, Stephen. We have all four of them here in Lower Alabama, too.

The red touch black snake (banded king snake) helps keeps rodents under control, as do the others. Usually they give humans a wide berth, if you make enough vibration to let them know you are there. Of course if you have a warm place and they are cold....

 

[Scarlet_Nape]

We killed our first one last night round midnight
it slithered right up next to mrs.PB and she was not happy
good thing it was only about 12" long, i geuss it was looking for a mother figure

He heard you had some Beam and was thirsty!!

 

[powerboatr]

got one more this morning...
little over 3 feet,
slithered righ under momas foot as she stepped out of the shack.
she chased it to the rolled up RV power cord, i geuss it thought that was moma or something.
got a hoe beat it till it ran in the yard towards me and BAM she dead, no more head

hope thats the last one

 

[02SilverStroke]

hope thats the last one

Robert, they're probably just beginning to come around your place. I grew up in North Louisiana in the woods near a creek. We always had lots of snakes, especially the black "chicken" snakes. They sure did love to raid the henhouse and get eggs.