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Revealed: You Won’t Believe How Many Times Squirrels Have Caused Blackouts
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America’s electrical power grid is so fragile that even squirrels can knock it. Believe it or not, squirrels have caused 623 electrical outages in recent decades.
That’s according to a new website, CyberSquirrel1.com, that traces the number of times squirrels, birds, raccoons, rats, beavers and even snakes cause power outages. Although the map covers the entire world, the overwhelming majority of outages on the map took place in the United States.
A typical example of a squirrel-related outage occurred in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in January, when a squirrel on a live wire near a substation caused so much havoc that power was out for five hours. It was the second time since November that a squirrel prompted a blackout there.
Another blackout took place in Evansville, Indiana, on January 2. That blackout, described as a major outage, caused traffic to come to a standstill on a freeway and lasted nearly an hour. The squirrel knocked out power by jumping onto a transformer at a local substation.
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Still another example took place in Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania, in October 2013, where a squirrel knocked out power and caused at least $20,000 in damage.
Source: http://www.offthegridnews.com/current-events/revealed-you-wont-believe-how-many-times-squirrels-have-caused-blackouts/
