Well I don't know why I read this entire thread, OMG.......I am absolutely horrified of snakes and could never live where they frequent. My sister lives outside of Rockdale and they are always killing rattlesnakes, copperheads, cottonmouth, coral snakes......and so do their neighbors. I haven't been there in over a year and when I'm there I walk around horrified. I don't see too good so that doesn't help!!!! Poisonous or not, if a snake bit me I'd die of a heart attack. They also have scorpions that get in the house. I just couldn't live there.
Now those little earth snakes, they are OK but geeze, they could look like baby cottonmouth? OMG
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