“Does everyone have this problem?” asks Tyler Bouldin, who is half of the DIY couple behind the social-media account theforgehouse. He’s referring to the snakes—the ones that were apparently seeking refuge in the roof of the family’s fixer-upper. Yikes.
Bouldin shared a video of several long, black snakes crawling up and around the 1830s estate home the family bought in an auction and have spent several years renovating. At first, they thought it was just one or two snakes, but then they realized the snakes were disappearing into a small hole that led into the porch’s roof. Bouldin notes that one of the snakes appears to be 7 feet long.
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The home is in Pennsylvania, and Bouldin says these black snakes are harmless and keep the venomous copperhead snakes away. But still—how many black snakes is too many black snakes? Some people in the comments section say zero roof snakes should be the goal.
“Where do you live so I don’t live there?” asked one person in the comments section.
“[Here’s] what you do. Go upstairs, pack a bag. Leave the keys where the snakes can easily find them. Get in your car. Drive. Change your name, start anew. That’s what I’d do,” jokes another person.
Watch a DIY couple realize their fixer-upper’s porch roof is probably full of large snakes:
What would you do?
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