Squirrel zaps electricity

[AGDLynn]

From the Coweta Times-Herald..

Many Newnan residents getting ready for work or morning errands and area businesses starting their day were delayed by a 50-minute power outage Monday -- all due to a squirrel
(Not me of course

About 3,750 Newnan Utilities customer lost power.

A squirrel on a power pole at Sunset Lane and West Washington Street caused a chain of events which led to the power outage...

At about 8:30 a.m., the gray squirrel shorted the line..The brakers at the substation should have tripped; but they did not, because the station had been struck by lightning in the storm two and a half weeks earlier and the utilitiy was not aware of it
(((so the squirrel was performing a public service!

...

The squirrel did not survive the incident ((she entered Chapter Grand)).