It was 16 degrees when I woke up this morning at 5 am to go to work(school teacher). I live in eastern South Carolina, and we're experiencing temps that are just as cold as that of the notorious east coast freeze of last Jan. that killed off the Burms in FL AND killed the ones in the experimental program set in Aiken, SC, two hours west of me. There isn't much of a let-up in sight, either; the long-range forecast is calling for nighttime lows in the mid-teens to mid-twenties for the next two weeks, with daytime highs only making it into the 40's. The only "warm spell" in the cards is a possible rain/snow/freezing rain event currently forecast for Sunday, with a low temp in the low 30's. We don't normally get this sort of weather this early in the winter; heck, it's not even winter yet! I can't imagine the exotic reptiles that are supposedly still running around in FL surviving two winters like this in a row, and honestly, after a sorry summer of field herping due to a scarcity of snakes around here, I'm worried about our NATIVE herps!

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