in line with what I said, it's stuff like these BS maps from a person who is surposed to know these things that causes the most problems! People will see this and think "oh, he works for the goverment, and this is his area of expertise, so he HAS to be right!". No offense to anyone here who IS a government employee, but we have a saying at my company...if you can't make it in the private sector, you work for the government...if you can't make it there, you work for VDOT lol. (btw, I'm not saying this applies to every person, but if you DO work for the government, you should know the people I speak of). I don't know much about this guy who created the maps...tried to google him and saw something about concern with wind farmers...couldn't find enough to tell for sure, but it sounds like another self-righteous freak who abuses their position to push their personal agendas...either that or he's too stupid to understand his own mistakes. If anyone can find more info out about him, and about his history with this type of issue, please post it!
It doesn't take long (I toggled between weather.com(look at the avg temps tab down on the page and on the right) and google maps) to see the problem...he obvious only went by peak summer temps and neglected the colder months. I couldn't find a single city with data from the burms native home "range" that had a month where the avg high fell below the low 80's....even New Orleans has 6 MONTHS where the avg high is lower then 80 (even goes as low as 62!) Could a burm survive for a few months in Alabama? Sure, if it's summer! But they couldn't survive the winter months, and that's the key...they would never make it through a winter in most of the country.
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1.0 ball python (Pandora - don't ask)
1.0 argentine boa (Prometheus)
0.0.1 colombian boa (Athena)
0.1 hogg island boa (Andromeda)
0.0.1 brazilian rainbow boa (Inara)
1.0 Dumeril's boa (Hannibal)
1.0 kenyan sand boa (Diablo)
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0.1 amel. corn snake (Morgan LaFay) RIP
0.0.2 baby corns (Romulus and Remus)
- 1 normal, 1 ghost
0.0.1 banded cali. kingsnake (Cain)
1.0 tangerine honduran milksnake (Narcissus)
0.0.1 snow corn snake (Valkyrie)
1.1 garden phase amazon tree boas (Pegasus, Lenore)
0.0.1 baby yellow amazon tree boa (affectionately called
Snuggles)
0.0.1 albino san diego gopher snake (maybe Octavian)
0.0.1 sandfish skink (Slick)
0.0.1 fire skink (Phoenix)
1.0 bassett hound/black and tan coonhound mix (Luke)
0.1 Boxer (Zoe)
1.0 bearded dragon (Leonidas)
1.1 ferrets (Ares, Enyo)
1.2 cats (Galahad, Ripley and Sassy)
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