Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Cute little squirrels, my ass!
The little boogers are just testing us to see what our weaknesses are and when they are ready, we will all be in deep trouble. Witness the results of a pair of suicide squirrel scout commandos.
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.Remember this when next you put out seeds for them. Your neighborhood may be next on their list.
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.
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