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The attack by the furry little critters has begun.

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[–] WagnasT@piefed.world 17 points 1 week 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.

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Somewhere I saw an article stating Colorado power stations were victim to a suspected foreign actor attack.. I wonder if it was the squirrels all along?? Lol

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Good instinct, though I suspect this ridiculous story about squirrels is just covering up a laundry fire inside the substation.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Be the squirrel you want to see in the world.

[–] Aqivex@fedinsfw.app 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hmmm. How smart are squirrels and how food motivated are they? This bears further study...

[–] LemmyUser0909@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Squirrels are a major cause of house fires. They love chewing on all those tasty wires in the attic. Just an fyi

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Local treasure, Kyle Clark, did a bit about this:

https://youtube.com/shorts/Uj-0Jihu-2E

[–] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Mr nutterbutter no!

[–] sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

This happens was more often that you would think.

[–] abcdqfr@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

When skynet takes over and everyone is in their matrix pods, this will be the thing to shut it all down

[–] the_q@piefed.social -3 points 1 week ago

When squirrels start doing what humans should...

[–] username_1@discuss.tchncs.de -4 points 1 week ago

Furry war! Shoot furries! And quadrobers too! Make substations great again. Beaver power! Bears unite!