Patterson, CA, where Oak Flat Rd. goes under the northbound lanes of I-5. I'll never forget. There aren't any rattlers down in the valley but there are in the coast range mountains and this was right on the edge of the mountains.
I was driving under a underpass to the freeway one time and there was a big rattler on the road and I was going to run over his head. Just before I got to him he pulled back and raised up and watched me go by. As my window was open with my arm hanging out, my life passed before my eyes. I...
They rarely venture into the valley from the foothills on either side of us. I leave them alone up there as they are useful, but they scare the crap out of me.
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