Comments on: Kamikaze squirrels kill electricity – over and over again http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/03/27/kamikaze-squirrels-kill-electricity-over-and-over-again/ Ramblings and tech news from the Pingdom team Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:34:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Internet outages, blackouts, and a plethora of strange incidents | Royal Pingdom http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/03/27/kamikaze-squirrels-kill-electricity-over-and-over-again/comment-page-1/#comment-339169 Internet outages, blackouts, and a plethora of strange incidents | Royal Pingdom Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:47:19 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=269#comment-339169 [...] Kamikaze squirrels kill electricity, over and over again – Next time your home or office has a blackout, there’s a good chance you can blame a squirrel. Tens of thousands of outages are caused every year by suicidal squirrels being where they shouldn’t be. [...] [...] Kamikaze squirrels kill electricity, over and over again – Next time your home or office has a blackout, there’s a good chance you can blame a squirrel. Tens of thousands of outages are caused every year by suicidal squirrels being where they shouldn’t be. [...]

]]> By: Live Wire http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/03/27/kamikaze-squirrels-kill-electricity-over-and-over-again/comment-page-1/#comment-322352 Live Wire Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:20:18 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=269#comment-322352 Yeah, I couldn't help but crack up over the one that cause the car to burn up. what are the chances of that happening? -Jack Yeah, I couldn’t help but crack up over the one that cause the car to burn up. what are the chances of that happening?
-Jack

]]> By: Pingdom http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/03/27/kamikaze-squirrels-kill-electricity-over-and-over-again/comment-page-1/#comment-321707 Pingdom Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:27:29 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=269#comment-321707 @Electrician in Wakefield: Somehow it almost feels we're talking about lemmings here... :) @Electrician in Wakefield: Somehow it almost feels we’re talking about lemmings here… :)

]]> By: Electrician in Wakefield http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/03/27/kamikaze-squirrels-kill-electricity-over-and-over-again/comment-page-1/#comment-321698 Electrician in Wakefield Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:55:55 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=269#comment-321698 It should only take a few hundred years for them to evolve out of this, we just need to let them get on with it... It should only take a few hundred years for them to evolve out of this, we just need to let them get on with it…

]]> By: Could The Amazon EC2 Cloud Computing Platform Squeeze The Profits From SaaS Applications? | paasTalk http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/03/27/kamikaze-squirrels-kill-electricity-over-and-over-again/comment-page-1/#comment-123409 Could The Amazon EC2 Cloud Computing Platform Squeeze The Profits From SaaS Applications? | paasTalk Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:58:46 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=269#comment-123409 [...] Unreliability is Guaranteed–CPU services come and go: networking issues, unplanned downtime, even squirrels! There is always something to go wrong, so expect the unexpected and do not rely on any one service being available at all times. [...] [...] Unreliability is Guaranteed–CPU services come and go: networking issues, unplanned downtime, even squirrels! There is always something to go wrong, so expect the unexpected and do not rely on any one service being available at all times. [...]

]]> By: reddy electric http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/03/27/kamikaze-squirrels-kill-electricity-over-and-over-again/comment-page-1/#comment-112706 reddy electric Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:20:57 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=269#comment-112706 A 're-closer' is a circuit breaker device on power lines that turns the power back on three times to 'clear' the fault. It is commonly known that it's purpose is to fry short-circuiting squirrels. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JxvwmQs0Fg A ‘re-closer’ is a circuit breaker device on power lines that turns the power back on three times to ‘clear’ the fault.
It is commonly known that it’s purpose is to fry short-circuiting squirrels.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JxvwmQs0Fg

]]> By: Stormy http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/03/27/kamikaze-squirrels-kill-electricity-over-and-over-again/comment-page-1/#comment-111551 Stormy Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:16:34 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=269#comment-111551 Awww, poor things... But this just too funny. Great post! :) Awww, poor things… But this just too funny. Great post! :)

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