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Old 03-26-2021, 09:00 AM   #22
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Default Re: Brief freak out moment

I meant to say I've never seen anything scary IN MY HOUSE. I have seen stuff out in nature.

I only saw a black widow once at the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge.

I know I've seen snakes places but I'm not a great snake identifier. They don't like people so they start away.

I've seen plenty of scorpions while camping. And I *have* seen those in a house before but never mine.

I lived in Corpus Christi from 1978-2008 and near Austin, TX from 2008-present. I live in Houston, TX for minimal amounts of time.

In Corpus, in pier and beam houses, we dealt with roaches and rats. Along the central Texas corridor along I35, to the west you have rocky soil, deer, trees, and more scorpions and to the east you have farmland and scrub/grass but fewer scary critters. Rattlesnakes are supposedly everywhere but I can't recall ever seeing a live one. I probably have but it didn't make an impression. We live very close to I35 near one of the largest bat colonies in the state. It cuts down on mosquitos in my neighborhood. I'm on the farmland side.

Oh I did see a rat snake flee underneath my siding years ago! I forgot about that. I'm happy to have a rat snake nearby eating the rats!

We have ants everywhere. I don't think you can escape them.

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