Reports that venomous snakes could turn up in Hurricane Florence flood waters proved true Sunday for a firefighter working near North Carolina’s Topsail Island.
North Topsail Beach firefighter Bradley Thomas Dixon posted a video Sunday on Facebook showing not one, but two cottonmouths wallowing in the muddy flood waters. The video had been viewed 51,000 times and shared hundreds of times by Monday.
Dixon said he “just walked up on” the snakes while checking storm damage at a disc golf course.
“When I jumped down from a fallen tree on a remote part of the disc golf course, I instantly saw them and thought it was a gator,” he told McClatchy.