Somehow I think they will manage. Garter snakes have survived on this planet how long now? Well, I'll bet it's long enough that this isn't their first spring freeze. Sounds like they're all still staying near the dens. I'm sure they have enough sense to come in out of the cold. The really smart ones will just go to Steve's house.

With the weather we're having in western WA and OR, I think it's going to be another very low reproduction year. Record rainfall and low temperatures are putting a serious damper on the breeding season.

Same thing happened last year. Very few females got gravid at all and summer weather lasted barely long enough to incubate offspring for those that did. We're talking barely 80 days active period before they were forced back underground.