It is raining cats and dogs where I live. Weather com is reporting STRONG storms for the next few hours. We just had a gully washer that flooded about 15-20% of the apt complex I live at in East Texas. The complex has a man made canal that runs through the middle of the complex. It's used for flood control. It's approximately 15 feet wide, 12 feet deep and maybe a furlong in length. Usually it works as its supposed to when it rains. Sometimes, like today the flow of water is too heavy for it.
I've been living here for the past 12 years. This is the 2nd time I've seen the canal overflow and spill out to flood apartments. My apt is situated so that my backyard is on one side of the 'ditch' as we call the canal. Fortunately, my apartment is about a foot higher than the apts on the opposite side. Today's rain caused the highest flooding I've seen.
Anyway, I was standing at my backdoor oohing and aahing at the flooded apt's when something caught my eye. I looked down and saw a water moccasin: aka 'cottonmouth'; approximately 3 feet long, slithering around my tomato plant. It had evidently decided it wanted to stop swimming in the floodwater and came out of it where my apt is.
I keep my homemade Crosman 1389 and my Winchester 1977XS on the dining room table. They're handy that way for backyard pests. I grabbed my 1389, then changed my mind. Ran to the bedroom and grabbed my Daisy 415 to use instead. Ran back to the dining room. By that time the cottonmouth was slithering toward a crawlspace between my apt and the one next door. There is at least 1 foot long garden snake living in the crawlspace..It eats some of the insects that would otherwise harm my plants.
1st shot hit the cottonmouth in the head. 1st 5 shots hit it in and around the head. Next 5 shots hit the lungs. Daisy 415 is one of the airguns I keep in my tacklebox when I'm fishing. This isn't the first time its done snake duty.
I've been living here for the past 12 years. This is the 2nd time I've seen the canal overflow and spill out to flood apartments. My apt is situated so that my backyard is on one side of the 'ditch' as we call the canal. Fortunately, my apartment is about a foot higher than the apts on the opposite side. Today's rain caused the highest flooding I've seen.
Anyway, I was standing at my backdoor oohing and aahing at the flooded apt's when something caught my eye. I looked down and saw a water moccasin: aka 'cottonmouth'; approximately 3 feet long, slithering around my tomato plant. It had evidently decided it wanted to stop swimming in the floodwater and came out of it where my apt is.
I keep my homemade Crosman 1389 and my Winchester 1977XS on the dining room table. They're handy that way for backyard pests. I grabbed my 1389, then changed my mind. Ran to the bedroom and grabbed my Daisy 415 to use instead. Ran back to the dining room. By that time the cottonmouth was slithering toward a crawlspace between my apt and the one next door. There is at least 1 foot long garden snake living in the crawlspace..It eats some of the insects that would otherwise harm my plants.
1st shot hit the cottonmouth in the head. 1st 5 shots hit it in and around the head. Next 5 shots hit the lungs. Daisy 415 is one of the airguns I keep in my tacklebox when I'm fishing. This isn't the first time its done snake duty.
