ON THE MOVE: We’ve reported that our dry summer weather has
brought rattlesnakes into downtown Emporium.

Laurie Garrigan sends along a note: “Mrs. Straub who lives on
Maple Street beside the Senior Center found (a rattlesnake)
crawling out of her garage and she stopped him w/her garden
hoe.”

“She is a very brave lady!” Laurie adds, an opinion with which
we concur.

One of the stories we’ve heard frequently living in McKean
County is that there are no rattlesnakes here – at least in the
Bradford area. Supposedly, they were eradicated when the Kinzua Dam
was constructed.

We don’t know if that is true or not but, honestly, we have
never heard of a report of a rattler in northern McKean County.

Perhaps there’s some herpetologists out there who could shed
some light on the situation?

SUMMER BREEZE: Lola C. Schneider of Deltona, Fla., writes:
“Recently I was in Buffalo and could not return to Florida without
paying a visit to my hometown. The thing I enjoyed most was
sleeping at night with the windows open and that nice cool breeze.
We live in AC here with temperatures in the 90 to 100 range.”

RAINY DAY: Kevin Vestal of Rudolph, Ohio, writes, “I was
watching the Weather Channel last night and they had a trivia
question and it was about Smethport. They wanted to know how many
inches of rain fell there in a 24-hour period back in the 1940s.
The answer was just under 34 inches. Anybody remember this?”

We don’t remember remember it but we remember writing about it
in RTSs occasionally over the years.