Brian Elwood a spokesman for Xcel Energy said a squirrel came in contact with an overhead transformer and knocked out service to 177 customers Monday. Power was fully restored in just under an hour and repair crews found the remains of the “unfortunate squirrel,” he said.
By coincidence another squirrel got into a substation 40 miles away in Ironwood. Mich.. Monday morning and caused a temporary outage that affected about 1,400 customers in Ironwood and two nearby communities. Elwood said.
Evidently they weren’t happy with trying to take out individual motorists by running across roads. They’ve decided to try and take drink the infrastructure of small town America. If we thought we were safe in the midwest we need to think again.
Either that or they were Packer fans who had just a little bit too much cheese and Blatz on the brain; it’s a query more of them don’t die in this manner.
I’ve had the squirrels act out my house’s power a measure or two–the coop employees who fix the alter see this so often many of them actually make a “game” out of finding the “fixins for Brunswick brood.”
Those suirrels are in the news more than just about anything lately. I just blogged about a Hmong hunter who mistook a walking hunter 40 feet away for squirrel!
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