Lake Norman woman, still recovering from May's snake bite, said that she was traumatized by yet another encounter with a staring and slithering snake.
Heatherly Noble reported that the snake rose from the grass in front of her Mooresville home and stared at Heatherly, before fleeing with her two dogs.
Noble described Tuesday's episode as "scary to death". He was a large, fat black snake.
Noble was walking Bella, an Australian cattle dog, and Mickey, a Chiweenie dog on leashes approximately a mile from home when she noticed what looked like a plastic bag in the grass.
The bag was found at a local doggie-bag cleanup station. She decided to go and pick it up.
She said that the bag changed in a flash into an 8-foot snake before her eyes.
Noble said that it scared him.
Demon from hell
Noble still wears a brace on her leg from the time she tore her ACL when a non-venomous snake climbed out of a bush near her front door and spit at her. Noble was trimming the bush from a ladder.
She described it as if she was a demon rising out of the depths hell, and told the Observer.
Her ACL was torn when her foot caught on a ladder rung. She instinctively ran from the serpent that bit her earlier in the morning while she was trimming the bush.
She said that her final surgery will be on Sept. 16.
She said that she was unable to walk fast enough when she saw the new snake. It lay right next to the sidewalk and was totally out in the open.
She took pictures of the snake and eventually it hid from her. As she got closer to the snake, she and her dogs moved further away.
Traumatized
Noble stated that she was already traumatized from the encounter with the snake in May and that this snake encounter didn't help her fear.
Noble is a corporate payroll director who moved to southern Iredell County two years ago from Texas. She is passionate about landscaping and was amazed at how quickly plants can grow here, compared to more arid Houston or Dallas.
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She said that snakes are here. They appear to be everywhere.
She said that this year has been particularly bad. I did not see any in 2019, and only one 2020. This is my third of the year.
She said that the Nobles homeowners association sent out a notice in which they reported that copperhead snakes bit two homeowners dogs this year.
Noble claims she was not joking when she said on Facebook that she might leave the state because of snake encounters. However, she stated to the Observer that the encounters had traumatized her.
She said that she doesn't want to leave the house any more.
