Looks like my used-since-childhood classification of "garter snake" is apparently a colloquial term for a wide variety of snakes

Likely a meters maximum number is 100,000 which is 99606+394. I'm guessing they took an incorrect reading at one point (yielding a negative number) and the computer system assumes you rolled over.

Also on 95 as you head towards Philly but before the highway 31 exit

I don't know this person but I've been involved in some huge email chains and it absolutely brings the worst out in people