Rain, like the deluge that has recently affected the region, can often cause snakes to seek refuge in dry places.

A snake fell out of a tree on Porter Street NW. Everybody panic.

Snakes falling out of trees? Fking great.

A snake handler at the National Zoo had a rather frightening day yesterday, when a cottonmouth snake — much like that bad boy to your right — had a bit of a freakout and spit a wicked combination of concentrated nastiness into her eye.

Photo by sally henny penny.To say that the President-less, sports section-less, layoff-happy Washington Times is in trouble would be akin to saying that Wile E. Coyote is just an underachiever — that is, an understatement of Biblical proportions. Ian Shapira reports in the Post today that the Times is openly being shopped by its owners, the Unification Church, after the Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s family — who now controls a vested interest in the organization’s…

Photo by mosley.brian We’re working on a Snake Theme here, people. WTOP’s Hank Silverberg reports that a house fire in Fairfax County has claimed the lives of dozens of snakes, scorpions, and lizards that were trapped inside cages in the attic when the fire broke out. Resident Zachary Frodge had been breeding the animals, which included “non-poisonous ball pythons, corn snakes, rat snakes, Columbia red tail boa constrictors, bearded dragons and a green iguana,”…