Nope. The fire ants took over. If you hit their mounds with fire ant killer, the little buggers just move ten feet and set up shop again. It’s amazing how just a few bites from those tiny little monsters can make your entire limb go numb. And those diamondbacks are Hell on Earth. My little sister back home in the MD mountains got bitten by one walking down her porch steps in the dark a few years back. She thought it was just an insect sting until her ankle blew up and she started having breathing difficulty. They found the punctures in her ankle at the E.R. and it took almost half the antivenin in the tri-state area to keep her from going into complete renal failure. It was a couple of years before her kidneys were back to normal.
Sorry to hear about your sister an that diamondback bite.
Our longest diamondback was 6 feet 6 inches long. We regularly encountered them and pygmy rattlers while doing survey work in the bush.
In New England, nor'easters and hurricanes hit us, but we have plenty of warning.
Unfortunately you don't have that all the time when a tornado develops.
Good luck. - Tom
Try pouring a large bucket of boiling water down the fire ant mound. Regarding the snake bite, it has been reported that giving very large amounts of Vitamin C can greatly reduce the danger. I mean like 50 to 100 grams over a several hour period, that’s 50,000 to 100,000 milligrams. Once I was camped with a large group in the wilderness. A woman was stung in the neck by several yellow jackets and had left her bee allergy hypo kit at home. That evening when I arrived at the “Mash” tent, her face and eyes were completely swollen, and her throat was closing up. I immediately crushed 10 1,000 milligram Vitamin C tablets, dissolved in water and had her drink it. In about 20 minutes her throat began to open up and she could open her eyes again. After the first hour I gave her another 10,000 mg. and spent the next 5 hours with her giving her 5,000 mg every hour. By then, she felt a lot better, and I left her with the Vitamin C bottle to give them to herself as needed. When I went back after sleeping, she had packed up and walked out.
To learn more, Google “medical uses of high dosage Vitamin C.” You should find a lot of interesting stuff. I think this could be used for highly dangerous hemorrhagic fever type illnesses like Ebola and Hanta virus. Their symptoms are like those of severe scurvy which is cured by Vitamin C.