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The Cleveland Park listserv, as seen in the New York Times, is not going to be happy about this.
Two weeks after snakes were reported to be falling out trees in Adams Morgan, a PoPville reader has informed D.C. that this terrifying-but-apparently-normal thing is happening in nearby Cleveland Park too. Will your neighborhood be next?
The reader sent in a photo and reports:
Just saw this guy take the plunge from a tree on Porter Street in Cleveland Park. It was terrifying. Maybe the same kind of snake that was falling from the trees in Walter Pierce Park? It was right below Connecticut, a little after Kim’s Dry Cleaners. It was so bizarre! After it fell it just kind of laid there. I’m not sure if it was dead or if it was freezing like the person in the PoP post said.
Black rat snakes, the kind of reptile that fell from trees in Walter Pierce Park, are not venomous, so there’s that.
Hopefully someone is protecting Baby Leo.