Woman dies from rattlesnake bite in Thousand Oaks

[ToddsPoint]

If you don't think those snakes have traveled 10 miles since the glacier days you better be right? I thank it would come out to about 12" of travel each year to make it ten miles by now! Someone check my math LOL

You’ve obviously never been here. This is a drone shot from my house looking south. Land is flat as a billiard table with no trees. Where would they live? Ten miles south is non glaciated. That’s where the timber and the snakes start.

 

[Dieseltechjon]

I ran across two the same day last weekend in the Cajon pass. They make for good pictures and videos, but I had never seen them up there before. The first caught me off guard too. I had to remind myself where I was at.

 

[Prairie Gazingfox]

Do you want some MORE ?? LOL

I read scientific findings 2 years ago
Venomous snakes are slowly moving their permanent home setting North towards Northern Illinois due to Global Warming.
Before, there also were venomous i shakes in Northern Illinois but very very rare.
Now, in hot months, they can be encountered also very rarely. But not as rarely as before.
Just depends on whether a person happens to be where one of them happens to be...
Also there are Rare cases where breeders release into the wild ( in forest preserves also ) a venomous snake or lizard they don't want to keep any more.

 

[Evan in CA]

Another person got bitten, and is in the hospital middle age male. He wasn’t even hiking it was in his driveway.

 

[Prairie Gazingfox]

Another person got bitten, and is in the hospital middle age male. He wasn’t even hiking it was in his driveway.

Too bad. I pray for him! What state, where?

 

[Evan in CA]

Too bad. I pray for him! What state, where?

Southern California I heard it on the radio. I don’t remember what city they said.

 

[Prairie Gazingfox]

Southern California I heard it on the radio. I don’t remember what city they said.

Crazy danger. We people often think nothing can escape our sight
Hopefully they can save this person

 

[Red-Coat]

Too bad. I pray for him! What state, where?

Southern California I heard it on the radio. I don’t remember what city they said.

The 50-year-old man was bitten twice (lower leg and foot) by a Mojave Green rattler (Crotalus Scutulatus) in his driveway near Desert Bell Drive and La Cañada Drive in Green Valley, California at the beginning of this month. The victim also reported "pretty good swelling" to his finger and an elevated heartbeat, but remained conscious and alert.

Firefighters requested a helicopter (H325) to airlift him to Loma Linda University Medical Center for treatment. Hope he recovers.

 

[oldmxrat]

I started wearing snake gaitors just to keep the weeds out of my socks when hunting, glad I've gotten used to wearing them. You never know.

 

[Red-Coat]

The 50-year-old man was bitten twice (lower leg and foot) by a Mojave Green rattler (Crotalus Scutulatus) in his driveway near Desert Bell Drive and La Cañada Drive in Green Valley, California at the beginning of this month. The victim also reported "pretty good swelling" to his finger and an elevated heartbeat, but remained conscious and alert.

Firefighters requested a helicopter (H325) to airlift him to Loma Linda University Medical Center for treatment. Hope he recovers.

Addition:

That report was lifted from social media but, although the essential details may be correct, the street address is not (probably found by some inferior Googling and confused with another bite incident). A man was indeed bitten twice by a rattler at that address, but in Green Valley, Arizona, not California. And it happened on 3rd September last year.

The Arizona guy was not in his driveway. He was taking a walk (reportedly 7pm, and in the dark) along a roadway near his home when he felt a sudden bite on each ankle, followed by the noise of a rattlesnake rattle. Also, he was 72, not middle-aged, and was able to walk home before being taken to the Banner University Medical Center for treatment.