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It Came From Vancouver Island

Posted on July 11, 2006 by bob harris

The power outage that took down this site for much of today, that is.

Guess I’ll try not to trip over that cord again.


Colin here: A squirrel, frolicking on a power transformer, tripped a circuit breaker cutting of 5000 electricity subscribers.


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