Very disappointing. I thought Philly would finish much higher. To not make the top 10 is depressing. I’m sure with another 8 years of Democratic rule, we’ll make strides forward. We regularly have mice scampering around our office. During a budget discussion, one of our departments asked for more money to alleviate the anticipated rat infestation. It seems there was going to be a major construction project a block away and they knew that would drive the rats into our building.
During heavy rain storms, rats have been known to climb out of the toilets in the basement of one of our buildings. In one of our buildings the Admin Assistant complained to central facilities about the rats in their basement. Facilities killed all the rats. Within days, the building was overrun by mice. It seems the rats were eating the mice and keeping them under control.
Avalon saw rats in the streets of New Orleans when she visited a couple years ago.
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Philly may not be in the top 10 overall, but looks like you are number one in mice. So you got that going for you.
I would wager the mice keep the roaches in check to some degree.
Also, looking the list over, I note that the biggest roach problems are in the warmer climates.
Rats, Mice, and Cockroaches are all disgusting. I’ve even had field mice in multiple vehicles. My cat used to bring them in the house and then let them go – wound up with a mice problem, including the cellar.
I live in suburbia – it is much worse in the cities with Rats and Cockroaches. I lived in Hartford Ct for 1 year, across from Hartford Hospital. We had an infestation of roaches in the apartment. Imagine, they crawl over dishes, glasses, silverware.
all of y’all need to git up to the northern midwest. no worries about rats, mice, roaches, rattlers, fire ants, zika skeeters, gators, hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, messikans, lack of water…
How is DC is not #1 in rats along with being #1 in snakes, douchebags and shit-stains?
Here in Minneapolis, I have a stone home, with a 3′ overhang, and soffit is faced with aluminum.
Last year some of our security cameras went dark. Some how a fucking mouse got in the attic and decided to ‘dine’ on my low voltage wiring. The little prick took out a transformer and two cameras. Chewed the wire right to the floor – so I couldn’t splice it – need to rip into the wall in the foyer.
How a mouse could climb upside down over 3′ of aluminum and then a leaf guard gutter to get to the roof is beyond me.
Put up mouse traps, caught the little bugger. Haven’t caught anymore – but now I’m paranoid. I now know why Elmer Fudd acts the way he does.
I made the mistake of forgetting to put poison in my garage where I store my tractor 2 winters ago and last spring had to have the entire thing rewired at around $1100 because a mouse set up house in the console. I’ll never make that mistake again.
The vast majority of the cities are in the south, which makes sense because the northern winters wipe out a significant percentage of the vermin each year making it much harder for vermin to build up in northern cities. So the northern cities on the list are much worse comparatively. Of the northern cities only NY bets Philly. If you look at it that way you’re in second place!
Yuge rats in North Carolina, believe me.
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Stucky, stucky, that’s bad. Hooozer
Stucky,
I know this is off topic, but I thought of your previous ideas of “cabin in the woods” and to pass this along to you.
Wikklehouse
Instead of posting a website, it’s easily found on youtube. You can get more info there.
My fellow construction workers in East Texas, in the ’80s told me that in East Texas, the only buildings that aren’t roach infested are the ones that don’t have the roofs on them yet. As soon as a new building is “dried in” the cockroaches show up.
The same seems to be true for mice in Central Virginia. You have these infestations in small towns and the boonies as well as in cities, I suppose. Rat infestations in cities seem to be worse in seaport cities.
I saw a dindu coming out of the building adjacent to me last month. I think he is renting. Today a notice was put on the bulletin board by the mail boxes that a tent will be placed over that building for fumigation in a day or two. As night follows day vermin breeds vermin.
Having gone to grad school in ‘Nawlins, I can tell you those cockroaches are f-ing monsters that FLY! Another student saw one peeking out of her fireplace, decided to spray it, and proceeded to have 20-30 swarm her from the chimney like a plague of locusts! Couldn’t sleep there for at least a month afterwards and likely still has nightmares about it.
Fuck admin! Let me splain how cats work……….. A couple of hog-nosed snakes would do the trick too but the sheople would lose their minds if they saw a snake in the hall!
I worked in a military commisary/warehouse at Shaw AFB, South Cacalacky that was infested with mice and I mean tens of thousands of them. The base itself was infested with feral cats because itinerant military folks had a habit of abandoning pets when they got PCS orders.
Anywho, someone finally cut a hole in the sheet metal warehouse wall big enough for the feral cats to get it in. In just a few short weeks the mouse population was very noticeably reduced. The biggest drawback was that the cats grew so fat they could no longer fit threw the hole in the wall to get back out. The hole was enlarged and the warehouse became an occasional haunt for the cats as needed to keep the mice under control.
Roaches are another kettle of fish. I used to laugh at the rich folks I knew down south who would explain to me that THEY did not have roaches, THEY had Palmetto Bugs! Yeah, whatever it takes for you to sleep at night.
I enjoyed my time living in the south but I do not miss the non-human vermin one bit.
“South Cacalacky”
chuckle… I’ve not heard that in awhile.