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JDGee: Of 'curls' v. transformers. Squirrels win Cute as they are, 'tree rats' continue to wreak havoc on the part of the power grid which is not buried About: Squirrel hunting - with a Canon By JDGee When my first wife (who, curiously enough, looks and acts exactly like my current spouse) lived in Bowling Green, I was talking to my father via telephone one Saturday morning when a sudden loud snap-crackle-pop noise outside was followed immediately by the power going off. Soon as I finished talking, I called the local municipal utility switchboard and in a few minutes, a truck rolled up. Two guys got out, warily circled the power pole, then one got a long wooden stick off the truck and began punching in the vicinity of the transformer. As the charred remains of a tree rat fell to ground, the other guy loudly announced to the world at large, "Damn squirrel!" They then reset the transformer and drove away. Fast forward a quarter of century or more. A few night ago, a blanket message went out to employees and students of the college where my wife works, saying the library would close at eight that evening because of a brownout (which, come to find out, encompassed the entire south half of the campus). The notification gave no cause for the power failure. Next morning, as soon as she got to work, my child bride got the inside skinny on the brownout and sent this terse but perfect explanation: "Squirrel 1, Kenyon 0." You probably heard me laughing. This story was posted on 2018-02-25 07:52:45
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