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Squirrels sinking their teeth into power grid cause US outage havoc

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Published Sun, Dec 27, 2015 · 09:50 PM

Washington

ELECTRIC utilities in the US are battling a bushy-tailed, nut-loving menace that has wreaked havoc on far more Christmas tree lights, TVs and cellphone chargers than any terrorist plotting against the power grid.

That's right. Beware the squirrel.

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