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Crocs Snakes Menace Flooded Australia City - Frogs, snakes, mice, spiders, crocodiles and likely other reptiles and amphibians are now too close for human comfort in Queensland, Australia, where recent severe floods transported these creatures in and around homes, according to reports in The Australian and other sources there. Residents of affected areas have been battling the floods for days now, with the problem impacting an area bigger than France and Germany combined. Barry Moessinger, who has lived in the low-lying Rockhampton suburb of Depot Hill for more than 50 years, told The Australian that he's been seeing up to 15 snakes a day over the past week. "There's heaps of them," Moessinger said. "We've had a plague of mice, a lot of frogs and so we knew the snakes would come." Crocs Snakes Menace Flooded Australia City When these animals wash around or in structures, they tend to seek hiding places, which may be in a closet, under a bed, o...