UNDER SIEGE UNTIL : PRECIS AUSTRALIA

SYDNEY - AUSTRALIA : Under siege by a plague of rodents. Vast swaths of Australia have been overrun by mice in recent months.

The mice are everywhere. Each morning, residents of morawa, a remote town in Western Australia, check for carcasses in the traps they set at bedtime.

They suspect their kettles for little bodies before making tea. They wipe down kitchen benches in case rodents visited at night. Then they head to work and do it all again.

The town, about 230 miles. [ 370 kilometers ] north of the state capital of Perth, has been under siege since February. When driving at night, residents say they can hear popping - likening it to Bubble Wrap bursting - as the car wheels crush mice on the road.

Returning from vacation, residents found their beds filled with mice, according to local media. Locals say the snakes are fat from overeating.

Many call it the worst mouse plague in living memory. '' They're everywhere,'' said the Morawa Shire president, Karen Chappel.

'' I've experienced a mouse plague in 1973 when I was a young girl, but it was different. It was out in the paddock. It wasn't in our homes. This time it's in our homes.''

!WOW! thanks Laura Chung.