>>And just to be picky Chris, many more people are bitten by snakes than hit by lighting. It's just that the mortality rate for lightning is something like 33% compared to 0.1% for snake bite. So, roughly ten times more people DIE from lighting than from snake bite.

Good point. I was thinking about snake fatalities.

FEMA estimates 200 deaths per year from lighting out of around 1000 strikes.

There are however, around 7000 snake bites and only around 14 fatalities. So you are 7 times more likely to be bitten by a snake, but less that 1/10th as likely to die.
You are 1250 times more likely to die in a traffic accident while driving to or from your snake adventure.
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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, Texas

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