a little diy

[J. Larry Hendry]

We (at your local power company) keep statistics on outages and their
causes.  These three vary from location to location as 1, 2, and 3.  But, in
my part of the country, leading causes of power outages in this order are:

1. Squirrels (and other animals) behind squirrels, mostly coons, birds, and
a few owls.
2. Lightning
3. Trees

From: The Proteus <proteus at ugwarehouse.org>
>  I mean, it was taught in my introduction to Geek.History
>  classes that squirrels are already suicidal as is - we don't
>  need to help them on their path to extinction.   There is an
>  acutal definition in The New Hacker's Dictionary on
> Squirrelcide where these little runts have the misfortune of
> shorting themselves across power lines - producing one
> dead squirrel and one blacked-out computer room if it's
> not on UPS.