I know what you mean. Several years ago some friends and i were goose hunting in January when it got warm like this. We were wading down a ditch around Cash, and spotted one sitting on the top of the ditch. And of course one of my dumb arse friends decided to hit it with his gun barrel. Next thing you know the cottonmouth slithers into the water with us. I don't think you'll ever see 4 grown men climb a ditch bank that fast.