Fried Squirrel . . . Alaskan Style
It’s summertime in
I have a friend who works for Chugach Electric who was telling me about the trials and sometimes strange things that happen when there are power outages that occur in
There are the normal things like the rest of the country has like wind blown down trees or limbs that break off or blow over lines cutting power to many homes and businesses. There is the occasional transformer that goes out from normal wear or the power pole that gets hit in an auto accident but there are other things that happen here to bring us back to the “dark ages”.
A wayward bear or moose may cause an outage but sometimes it’s that pesky
"skwerl" that creates the havoc. My friend who works for the local power company was telling me that whenever there's a power outage, it's the duty of the repair crew to determine the cause of the outage (wildlife, tree branches, lightning, underground cable failure, etc.) and then report it so they can take measures to prevent that kind of outage from recurring.
I once asked him if the lineman ever has a case where you just can't figure out what caused the outage.
He fired right back, "Oh sure. That's why you always carry a throw-down squirrel with you."
Fried Squirrel anyone?
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