On Tue, November 8, 2011 10:33 am, Dale wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: >> On Mon, November 7, 2011 1:32 pm, Dale wrote: >>> All this from a raccoon knocking out power. Pesky critter. >> Raccoons are doing some behaviour studies in your area, didn't you get >> the >> memo? :) >> >> -- >> Joost >> > > The only report that raccoon will give is a bright flash of light. > Shorting out 250,000 volts sort of puts a period on the end of the > briefest report there has ever been. Those lines are the TVA lines that > come from a few hundred miles away. There is no telling how much power > comes through those lines either. Heck, even one amp is a lot. > > That raccoon better get a new plan. The current one is shockingly the > wrong way to do it. lol Plus I hate when the lights go out. Winter > is about here and we have electric heat. :/
Nah, no new plan needed. The raccoon that physically caused the problem was a convicted criminal. (For refusing to cause havoc) and was sentenced to death by electrocution. The specific location was picked by the actual scientist running the experiments. -- Joost
