Biggest #&#$@ Roaches on the planet!! (Spring: credit, luxury, maintenance)

[Rosie123]

Originally Posted by bookworm2768

Holy @@$@$#@!
WHAT IS UP WITH THE SIZE OF THE ROACHES DOWN HERE!!!
This dream move to Texas is turning up some pretty nasty little added benefits!
I've found a roach in my sun room last week (just wandered in, right?) and just five minutes ago found another one as big as a credit card inside my cereal bowl INSIDE my Kitchen cabinet. I am utterly freaked out!!! After doing a jig all over the kitchen and smashing the monster to bits I am ready to throw up!
How common is this? I've got a contract with a pest control company who will only be able to come out on Friday to spray the place. Friday!! Heck I'm terrified of entering the kitchen anymore! I haven't seen roaches this big in 13 years!
So what does this mean?? Is this house infested?? We just bought it this spring but I cleaned those cabinets out really well! Where on earth are these da&**d things hiding? HEEEELLLP!!!!

Sorry Bookworm, you will just have to get used to those roaches!!!! We used a pest control company which helped a lot...after that we only saw roaches twice a month Roaches are part of Texas - and yes..true in Texas everything comes big We moved to Colorado - we do not have to deal with roaches (momof2dfw must have stayed really in a very nasty place lol!
Also no fireants here! We have deers in our backyard..from time to time a fox....and yes..there are black bears around...but they are quite shy and therefore we do not really see them much If you cannot deal with roaches - then move to the mountains of Colorado and I promise you..you will not have to deal with any of those Texan-size roaches Good luck to you!

[pushkinswife]

Originally Posted by bookworm2768

Holy @@$@$#@!
WHAT IS UP WITH THE SIZE OF THE ROACHES DOWN HERE!!!

I've found a roach in my sun room last week (just wandered in, right?) and just five minutes ago found another one as big as a credit card inside my cereal bowl INSIDE my Kitchen cabinet. I am utterly freaked out!!! After doing a jig all over the kitchen and smashing the monster to bits I am ready to throw up!

First of all you are my hero. You actually killed this travesty? OMG it was that big? Lawd help you. I would have not lived to tell this story. My last encounter left me in a blank state of mind. I have repressed the memory of it. I have done some research and those big ones have an "oily" layer on top of them. Get a spray bottle with a stream feature and fill it with a soapy mixture and water. I used Ivory. I am AFRAID but was forced to live in the place because it was all I could afford. That afforded me some distance from that horrible nightmare while attempting to kill it. I would call everyone I knew to help. Also leaving the AC on like 60 or lower will kill it. Those demon creatures hate the cold temps. My pest control guy says there are different types like palmetto and american...and please I hope this one did not have wings. Big as a credit card

[Stephanie P]

My parents live in Van Alstyne, about 15 miles north of McKinney, on Hwy 75.
When I lived there, we saw (in the house,) roaches, mice, snakes and I was once stung by a stinging scorpion that crawled up my pants leg while I was sitting on the floor.
Granted, my parents do live "in the country," but still, yikes!
I live outside of Houston now. I see roaches in the garage, and they are BIG! I run like the wind, sreaming at my husband to "kill it! kill it!" After a few months of this, he finally knows what I am talking about.

[pushkinswife]

Originally Posted by dallas76

FYI If you see one climbing up the wall please be advise that it will fly at your face.

[Rosie123]

Originally Posted by Stephanie P

My parents live in Van Alstyne, about 15 miles north of McKinney, on Hwy 75.
When I lived there, we saw (in the house,) roaches, mice, snakes and I was once stung by a stinging scorpion that crawled up my pants leg while I was sitting on the floor.
Granted, my parents do live "in the country," but still, yikes!
I live outside of Houston now. I see roaches in the garage, and they are BIG! I run like the wind, sreaming at my husband to "kill it! kill it!" After a few months of this, he finally knows what I am talking about.

I hope all those people out there considering moving to that Great State of Texas will read your and the previous postings! Whenever I post my opinion I get attacked by all those perfect Texans who think their place is the greatest ever! Well - you all out there (thinking you are perfect) I hope the roaches bite you!!! lol..... Sorry Stephanie...I just "had to get it out"

[SusanG_O]

The truth is, ALL and I mean ALL apartment buildings in Texas have big roaches. Not all houses do. I'd Never live in an apartment in Texas. That is, never again. I did once in 1965 and in 1985.
One way to not have them in a Texas HOUSE is twice monthly spring and summer you get a can of roach/ant spray and walk all the way around the house, spraying two feet from the foundation. This is likely to work unless the house is OLD and infested. In that case, they could be in the walls like mice. My mother in law had them in a gorgeous apartment in Dallas. She would call the manager and tell her "better get the exterminator out here again" and I don't know if it ever did the job but I doubt it.
Real friendly people, though.

[momof2dfw]

Originally Posted by SandyCo

This is one of those stories that is definitely better to retell than to live through! Of course, my question is, how did you rinse off your hair? Was there a bathroom sink or something you could use?

I also would have been flying down the hall if I saw something like that! Wow.

LOL!! No kidding. It was NOT funny at the time and it was not a wee little baby one either. I swear that thing could have plugged the bathtub drain. Do not recall how I ended up finally getting my hair rinsed out. Want to say this was our first night in the place too and for the rest of the time I was VERY tempted to pack a bag and shower at the ski resort when I was done for the day.

And NO this was NOT a cheap, nasty, dirty place either. The Hotel Colorado way up IN the mountains in Glenwood Springs. There ARE roaches IN Colorado contrary to some peoples opinion And my experience was IN the winter w/ snow on the ground (hence the reason we were there for a ski trip). Having grown up going to Colorado every year in winter and summer as a kid and staying out in areas away from the big cities (Colorado Springs was NOT a "big city" then) there are PLENTY of creepy crawlies in Colorado as well just of a different variety. But hey, if anyone wants to buy some land up in Colorado away from the rat race....... I've got some

[jeffari-al-texani]

Originally Posted by SusanG_O

The truth is, ALL and I mean ALL apartment buildings in Texas have big roaches.

Sorry, but I'm going to have to call BS on this one. I've lived in plenty of apartments in Dallas, Houston and Austin (at least 10 different communities) and I only saw roaches in 3 of them. Or maybe I just got lucky, and they would only come out while I was at work or asleep!

Now ants...that's an entirely different story....

[momof2dfw]

Originally Posted by jeffari-al-texani

Sorry, but I'm going to have to call BS on this one. I've lived in plenty of apartments in Dallas, Houston and Austin (at least 10 different communities) and I only saw roaches in 3 of them. Or maybe I just got lucky, and they would only come out while I was at work or asleep!

Now ants...that's an entirely different story....

I know darn well my husbands apartment had roaches. I was not married to him at that time but that place was a DIVE! It has since been torn down I believe (it was about 20 years past needing to be when he moved into it ). However, I'm with you. I had an apartment in a very nice complex in Far North Dallas and I never saw one. As I said earlier, before I moved into ANY house (single family or apartment) I put out roach traps/bait/poison. The management company might have been a little more on top of things though as they were trying to attract a more "stable" renter and offered all kinds of amenities that were not the "norm" back in that time period.

Come to think of it not even the dorms I lived in back in college there were no roaches.

[jabbit]

South Texas roaches are bigger than North Texas roaches.