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Subject: [Leica] Squirrel Attack
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 11:05:22 -0500

Will always remember the huge red squirrels in Des Moines Iowa my first
semester at Drake in '69. They were brazen and had strong personalities.
Seemed mainly interested in acorns and whatever they could talk you into
giving them a bite  of from the rec center.
When I visited the campus in 2006 they seemed to be replaced by small gray
ones. And a lot of bunnies. Hundreds of bunnies on a college campus!  You
couldn't make a thing like that up.
And the sidewalks were red cobblestones which matched the squirrels.
Those are gone too.
Everything goes to hell!


On 12/26/13 9:42 PM, "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote:

> :-) :-) :-)
> Hi Mark,
> 
> Unlike your big city squirrels, these country cousins seem to like to
> gnaw on man-made materials.  They almost severed the aluminum neutral
> wire on the power feed to my house.  Now they have gone upscale and
> decided to dine on the tough plastic sheath on the fiber optic cable.
> This time it was the main "backbone" to our neighborhood, hurting a lot
> of customers.  However, for now, my service is not affected.  I guess
> they know I feed them!
> 
> We, like all of the neighbors, will have no service tomorrow while the
> cable is being replaced. :-(
> 
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> 
> On 12/26/2013 8:21 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>> After Alfred Hitchcock made "The Birds" someone else will  have to now  
>> make
>> "The Squirrels".
>> And not Monty Python.
>> 
>> 
>> On 12/26/13 5:48 PM, "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> I just looked out and found a power system crew madly topping the holly
>>> trees along my back property line, beneath the utility cables.  It seems
>>> that squirrels have gnawed through the outer sheath on the fiber optic
>>> bundle, and damaged some of the fibers themselves.  There are about 40
>>> customers without TV, Internet, or telephone service, though mine is
>>> still up for now.
>>> 
>>> They plan to make some quick repairs, but the cable must be replaced.
>>> If I am quiet for a while, blame the squirrels, whom I feed. :-(
>>> 
>>> Such is life.
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> 
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-- 
Mark William Rabiner
Photographer
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