Blizzard-Ice Storm January 23-26, 2026

[Doc]

Luckily where we live now there are only garter snakes. There's about a 3 inch hole in our back yard and in the spring several come out everyday to lay in the sun. Later in the spring There's a dozen or more little ones always popping in and out of the hole. Biggest one is about 3 ft and friendly. Several of them live in the garden all summer.

I have a lot of gray and red rat snakes, I put them under the house .

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[Fordup]

Looking out our bedroom window this morning. A foot of lake snow drift hanging off the eve at the top of the picture. Amazing how the wind can freeze those flakes together and create hanging sculptures when it's cold. Time to plow again.

 

[Doc]

The area of Arizona we're in now is all desert around us so there's way more critters here than up in the Phoenix area where we were before. When we were here this summer looking at houses we were walking down the sidewalk one night right at dusk and I heard this noise, almost like a sprinkler was starting up and the air was coming out first. I looked to my left and saw a rattle snake 2' away with its tail up and it got louder and louder. I pushed Annie off the curb (it was a side street with no one there) and I jumped off myself and high tailed it out of there. Darn thing blended in with the dark landscape stone so well I never saw it. It was a small rattler coiled up but I heard those are more dangerous because they can't control their venom/bite yet. Of course now she's petrified to walk when it's getting dark out now.

We have huge Eastern Diamondbacks here and a lot of Cottonmouths …Copperheads are Rare ..

 

[woodworker]

I have a lot of gray and red rat snakes, I put them under the house .

I use to turn them loose under the house every time I caught one. They are the best mouse trap ever built.

 

[woodworker]

We have huge Eastern Diamondbacks here and a lot of Cottonmouths …Copperheads are Rare ..

Both of those will mess up your whole afternoon should you be exposed to the bitey end of either one.

 

[woodworker]

That Russel must have been drugged. Ours was the smartest and most active dog ever. Good dog for very young active families. And if you get one be prepared to pull it out of groundhog holes by its back legs . Met his first rattlesnake in the tall grass on the edge of Glencoe campground when we took him with us to the Sturgis rally back in 2002. Good thing he was on a short leash.

They are very smart and like the energizer bunny.

 

[Doc]

I grew up where the southern most 35F readiing is, and I only remember it going into the 40s.... and that was a very rare occurance. We'd see our breath on occasion while walking to school. I do remember people reporting once that they saw lite snowflakes falling somewhere in north Miami, but they never reached the ground.

We didn't even have a furnace in the house. On occasion, we'd break out a portable kerosene heater, but only a handful of times in my 20 years there. I remember putting out a pail of water on the back porch to see if it was freeze. It never did. I do remember the orange groves being sprayed with water to keep the temperature at freezing, no lower. but that was up near Orlando.

Those are very unusual temps for South Fla.

I lived in North Miami for 35 years.

 

[Doc]

Both of those will mess up your whole afternoon should you be exposed to the bitey end of either one.

I was bow hunting in the early 90s in the Everglades and my friend who was an avid snake hunter. He got snakes for the Miami serpentarium. And we were walking down this trail and he suddenly said this place looks very snakey snakey snakey and there was a diamond back stretched across the path that was huge he, he struck at my friend and I remember feeling his foot as he jumped over my shoulder, and I let an arrow fly and hit him in the middle of the wad. We put three broad heads through the head of the snake just to let you know how big he was and we took him and weighed him at 17 pounds my friend was a butcher and we were accustomed to eating all types of wildlife and he did a perfect fillet on that diamond back and we ate him. He put it in a cast-iron pan with just butter. It tasted very good and that wasn’t the first one we ate..

 

[AzScorpion]

Snow coming in now but look at those temps across the N'East.

 

[woodworker]

I was bow hunting in the early 90s in the Everglades and my friend who was an avid snake hunter. He got snakes for the Miami serpentarium. And we were walking down this trail and he suddenly said this place looks very snakey snakey snakey and there was a diamond back stretched across the path that was huge he, he struck at my friend and I remember feeling his foot as he jumped over my shoulder, and I let an arrow fly and hit him in the middle of the wad. We put three broad heads through the head of the snake just to let you know how big he was and we took him and weighed him at 17 pounds my friend was a butcher and we were accustomed to eating all types of wildlife and he did a perfect fillet on that diamond back and we ate him. He put it in a cast-iron pan with just butter. It tasted very good and that wasn’t the first one we ate..

I’ve never had the nerve to try it but I hear it’s pretty good if done up right.

 

[woodworker]

Snow coming in now but look at those temps across the N'East.

I’m right in the little red circle so I’m watching.

 

[Doc]

I’ve never had the nerve to try it but I hear it’s pretty good if done up right.

Above the rib cage, there is a small triangular backstrap that can be taken out of the large ones. The smaller ons are cut into chunks and fried . It’s very good ..

 

[ControlNode]

Well, part two is starting in my area. Snow is coming down good and sticking the roads. Took the Focus out for Coffee run this morning.

 

[AzScorpion]

Above the rib cage, there is a small triangular backstrap that can be taken out of the large ones. The smaller ons are cut into chunks and fried . It’s very good ..

Doc, Tastes like chicken?

 

[Fordup]

I just got done cleaning up another 6 inches for the Amazon guy and still coming down hard. This is the storm that keeps on giving. That's a 8 ft pile behind my mailbox. Our plow drivers are good.

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