Hurricanes Remain Not Fun Place To Be: Floating Swarms Of Fire Ants Spotted In Florence's Floodwaters
In wake of Hurricane Florence, victims in the storm's path are being warned of a less-than-obvious reason to avoid trekking through dangerous floodwaters: fire ants.
Gadi Schwartz, an NBC News correspondent, took to Twitter on Monday to share horrifying footage of "millions and millions" of fire ants floating through the streets in North Carolina following the devastating rain that slammed the city over the weekend.
Sadly, if you thought boats would be able to keep you safe from the floating monsters, you're completely wrong.
"If you are in a row boat, do not touch the ants with the oars since they can ‘climb aboard’ via the oars," Nester told the outlet.
People in areas affected by Hurricane Florence have also been cautioned to look out for snakes, including venomous cottonmouths and copperheads, lurking in the storm's floodwaters.
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As if the victims of Hurricane Florence don’t have enough to worry about with the fallout of high winds and standing in waist deep water for the next three months, now they’ve got to deal with floating swarms of fire ants. Have these people not enough to fret over? Mother Nature, you heartless bitch, you toss a massive hurricane at these poor folks and then fill the waters with all manner of poison beasts.
I guess I understand some of the reasons why people would want to wait out hurricanes. You want to be closer to your home, I’m sure you’re worried about looting and the other risks of leaving the majority of your valuables during a natural disaster, not to mention the difficulties getting back to your house after the hurricane’s over: that being said, swarms of ants means I no longer care.
Get out. Leave. We’re not equipped as a race to deal with creatures like this. Take my stuff, take my home, take my family, just please don’t let me get swarmed by fire ants. Experts are saying that you shouldn’t even touch a swarm of these with an oar because they’ll swarm up it. Yeah, no shit. Why, why, why would you ever tough a swarm of fire ants with anything? I’m at no risk of doing that. I’m the guy running the other direction.
That’s it. After doing my research and writing this blog, I’m officially shutting down fire ants. I don’t care what natural predator I have to bring in: it’s time to say goodbye to nature’s spiciest little bois. Too scary, too floatable, too much biting, too impervious to hurricanes.
