Adventurous squirrels give region's power grid a shock

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://portlandtribune.com/pt/9-news/226531-89227-adventurous-squirrels-give-regions-power-grid-a-shock

By Kendra Hogue
Portland Tribune
09 July 2014

When the power goes out on a hot day, most people assume overuse of air 
conditioning is to blame.

But from June 12 through July 7, four substation outages in Portland’s 
westside suburbs and in North Portland were caused by adorably nimble, 
fluffy-tailed and overly adventurous squirrels.

All four outages were in PGE territory and one -- the Oak Hills substation 
at Northwest Cornell Road and Twin Oaks Drive in Beaverton -- was hit 
twice. (By different squirrels, of course.)

"This is clearly an unusual convergence of squirrel activity," said Steve 
Corson, spokesman for PGE. "We’d like to have a break from squirrels for 
awhile."

[...]

--
Evident.io - Continuous Cloud Security for AWS.
Identify and mitigate risks in 5 minutes or less.
Sign up for a free trial @ https://evident.io/