10:06 AM: Thanks for the tip. Power is out for 122 customers southeast of The Junction, centered near Fauntleroy/Edmunds, according to the Seattle City Light outage map. SCL attributes it to “bird/animal”; a squirrel, to be specific, reports a texter.
2 PM: According to commenter Lauren, power came back on just after noon.
I have been warning folks for years about the potential threat squirrels actually pose. Selfish hoarders, the lot of em’!!!
They’ve taken to operating in gangs, as well. I watched several squirrels carry off a neighbor who refused to give them food. Horrifying. Now they’ve progressed to sabotaging infrastructure.
There’s a Go Fund Me started to raise the ransom to free our poor neighbor. If I find the link I’ll post it. These squirrels aren’t messing around – they’re demanding Macadamian nuts!
if it were not for the electric wires, the squirrels would have no freeway so hoarders or not the electric wires are equally important to the squirrels. They don’t care where there’s power in them or not they just care that they’re there.
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