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Squirrels break into Colorado power substation, cause outages 2 days in a row (www.denverpost.com)

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The attack by the furry little critters has begun.

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[–] WagnasT@piefed.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

This happened at the last utility I worked for, the poor thing used his body to complete a circuit that was supposed to be open at a substation, one main breaker and several feeders popped open which resulted in about half the feeders going down, several neighborhoods lost power. I dont remember the exact numbers but I think he was channeling about 8MW before the breakers tripped, probably the most powerful squirrel in the universe for a moment.