There was a story published in the Daily Courier fifty years ago about a power outage.
An apparently daring squirrel playing near the Merlin power substation, "made a fatal leap," landing on a 60,000 volt power line.
The power was not restored to some residents for as long as six hours. It was reported that this was the fourth time that power was disrupted due to a squirrel. It's not clear whether they meant just in the year 1961.
Things haven't changed much in the last fifty years; at least as far as squirrels causing power outages in our area.
Squirrels are still causing power disruptions in Josephine County. I remember three years ago, our power was out for almost 12 hours due to a squirrel!
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it won't happen this year, especially for the sake of all those daredevil squirrels!
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