«Breaking News» Venomous cottonmouth snakes spotted in North Carolina floodwaters

Venomous cottonmouth snakes were spotted slithering around Hurricane Florence floodwaters over the weekend in North Carolina.

Bradley Dixon recorded video Sunday in Hampstead where he witnessed one large and one smaller cottonmouth snake 'sucking up some sun' just feet away from him, he wrote in a Facebook post.

'The big one looks to be about four feet long... the little one is about three and a half feet long,' Dixon said.

'Just walked up on these guys on the farm I evacuated to just off of Topsail Island! They don't seem to have a care in the world!

'If you are in an area that is flooded keep an eye out for snakes... these Cottonmouths are one of the six venomous snakes in North Carolina.'

North Carolina resident Bradley Dixon spotted venomous cottonmouth snakes over the weekend in Florence floodwaters

Dixon recorded video Sunday in Hempstead where he witnessed one large and one smaller cottonmouth snake 'sucking up some sun,' he wrote in a Facebook post

'If you are in an area that is flooded keep an eye out for snakes... these Cottonmouths are one of the six venomous snakes in North Carolina,' he said 

The venomous snakes weren't the only thing found floating in the floodwaters during the hurricane.

With North Carolina being one of the nation's largest pork producers, heavy waters lifted pig manure from its pits.

Dr Neill Grigg, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Colorado State University, spoke to DailyMail.com about the matter.

He said the animal manure is stored in 'lagoons,' open earthen pits, into which tons of animal waste pours from the farms where the hogs are kept. The animals produce 10 billion pounds of manure every year. 

'Hog, chicken, animal, and human waste all have a lot of different kinds of bacteria,' Dr Grigg said.

'The deadly one is E. coli, but all sorts can make you sick from contact as well as from drinking contaminated water.' 

A hog farm is inundated with floodwaters from Hurricane Florence near Trenton, North Carolina on Sunday

With North Carolina being one of the nation's largest pork producers, the heavy waters lifted pig manure from its pits

In 1999 and 2016, Hurricanes Floyd and Matthew, respectively, brought flood waters that overran a number of pig lagoons. 

It is unclear how many people may have been sickened in the aftermath of the storms.

The state urged pig farmers to pump as much of the waste as possible from the lagoons and haul it away. 

Furthermore, colonies of fire ants were seen attempting to survive in the floods.

The Weather Channel said in a video clip taken in Rocky Point: 'People aren’t the only ones trying to stay afloat.'

The Weather Channel said that ants are able to turn their bodies into rafts then 'link together to form floating islands.'

A colony of fire ants floats in rising flood waters in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence, in Leland, North Carolina on Sunday

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Main photo article Venomous cottonmouth snakes were spotted slithering around Hurricane Florence floodwaters over the weekend in North Carolina.
Bradley Dixon recorded video Sunday in Hampstead where he witnessed one large and one smaller cottonmouth snake ‘sucking up some sun’ just feet away from him, ...

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