I guess that is how natural selection and evolution happen in the wild, species get distrubuted due to natural disasters like hurricanes, floods, ect. They either survive, push out previously native species, or perish. Because of man's transport of species around the world, we have African bees out west, non-native fire ants and kudzu in the Southeast, and pythons, caimans, and monitors living and reproducing in South Florida. I am sure somewhere down there, there have been many different species let loose. It is a scary thought that someone could be cleaning up debris and come across a mamba, cobra, or similar. I have heard stories of folks buying cobras up here in NC, getting sick of them, and letting them go in the woods. Fortunately, they cannot survive the winter here. I am sure that in a few years, folks will begin seeing some very interesting "wild morphs" down there.
As far as emegency procedures, I live up in the NC mountains, and my big worry is when the power goes out in Winter. It happened last year when it was in the 20's outside and I had to pack my 12 snakes and monitor up in smaller sterlite containers and find a hotel with power. Are they having problems with too much heat and no ac down there now? A sad story - one Christmas my wife and I went to visit her mother. I asked her to turn the heat "down". She turned it "off". We came back to a 34 degree house. Unbelieveably, a blacktail cribo and two glades rats survived, but the ball python died. Only the python had heating in it's cage.

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• Emergency procedures for herp collections during natural disasters... - carl3, Tue Aug 17 16:01:46 2004
• RE: Emergency procedures for herp collections during natural disasters... - crtoon83, Tue Aug 17 16:28:09 2004
• I was curious too.. - jtclark, Tue Aug 17 16:37:39 2004
• RE: Emergency procedures for herp collections during natural disasters... - mike13, Wed Aug 18 11:19:02 2004
• People releasing snakes in the wild. - crtoon83, Wed Aug 18 19:01:21 2004
• RE: Emergency procedures for herp collections during natural disasters... - -ryan-, Fri Aug 27 12:21:40 2004
• RE: Emergency procedures for herp collections during natural disasters... - lldg, Thu Aug 19 12:36:38 2004
• RE: Emergency procedures for herp collections during natural disasters... - LloydHeilbrunn, Thu Aug 19 17:16:11 2004