Posted on 06/25/2019 9:33:13 AM PDT by george76
FALLS, Pa. — A Pennsylvania woman used a shovel to kill a cobra she saw slithering on the patio of her apartment.
Kathy Kehoe says the squawking of some blue jays outside her unit caught her attention Monday. When she looked outside, she saw a 4 to 5-foot-long serpent.
Kehoe, 73, says she noticed the lateral spot commonly found on cobras and nudged its tail. When it rose and spread its hood, she realized it was a cobra.
Her apartment complex in Falls, Wyoming County, just northwest of Scranton, is the same one where officials removed 20 venomous snakes from another apartment in March. Officials aren’t sure if the cobra had escaped from that unit.
Pennsylvania has something Floriduh does not: Brutal winters.
If that cougar was in my house y’all never hear from me again
I thought of that too then I remembered even in Arizona in the higher elevations where it snows and gets down in the low teens; they have rattlesnakes.
I don't know enough about Cobra's to know if they could survive the cold though. I think they simply go dormant/hibernate in AZ.
My Black Mamba can run circles around those slow pokes.
The coldest parts of Massachusetts have indigenous rattlesnakes. (I know a woman who has a country home on Rattlesnake Gutter Road in Leverett.) Pythons and cobras cannot survive winters here, and I doubt they survive Pennsylvania, at least not one really brutal winter.
Have seen TV shows about black mambas. You are right. Because of the potency of their venom, lightening quick speed and generally hostile attitude, a black mamba, to me, is the scariest snake on earth . . . hands down. You own one??????
Nah, it got away.
Yikes!!!! I hope you live in Alaska or Hawaii!!
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