I was just thinking it was odd he hadn't chimed in on the pest discussion yet. I'm sure he has a tale of a childhood home overrun with cockroaches the size of wiener dogs.
There are definitely rats in the hedge and in semi neglected landscaping throughout the neighborhood. I’ve seen evidence near my garbage cans but not lately. As far as I can tell they’re not in the house. Im pretty careful to ensure they have no way in. We had them in the crawl space in our last house and that was an expensive problem to fix.
Already posted the stats for how different mid May to mid June was at SEA and OLM compared to 2015 (precip included). Obviously results may vary by location...