Zip- ( not to hi-jack thread) but sounds like the house i live in now (selling)..its was built in 1947 and is a little over 2 ft off the ground give or take..you can belly crawl and keep head low..anyhow i had to go under house on the furtherest end and fix a washer drain (re-plumbed old galvanized pipe)..
anyhow i belly crawled about 80ft around a corner to where my wife could no longer see my light...
as i got within 10ft of where i was going i saw a snake skin on the dfirt floor..My heart sank..my heart rate went up and my palms got sweaty..i stopped and looked all around for it seems eternity and saw nothing..i was too far to turn back and was dragging a sawzall and all my pvc pipe,primer,glue etc.. to do the job..
i got to the site and started cutting the galvanzied pipe....i saw movement out of the corner of my left side and turned the light in that direction and there was huge snake laying up against a rafter staring down on me..i about $hit my pants.....i got my wife to pass me a stick thru the crawl space vents and i scared him backwards..dont' know where it went..i will not go back under this house as long as i own it..it can leak a small pond i could careless..
last winter i also heard something scratching under the floor. i went into the celler and shined my light into the belly crawl part of the house and here come a 20lb possum walking straight toward me..i guess it didn't realize i was there until it got 5 ft from me then i SCREAMED it SQUEELD AND HISSED and it turned around and ran..i hollerd for my wife to bring me my .38 caliber and she talked me out of discharing it under the house. i do not know who was more scared me or the possum ????
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sorry i had to tell this story.
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