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I lived in rural Wisconsin around 2013. A farmer burying a dead cow took out the town's internet with his backhoe. Also atleast 2 times a squirrel got fried on a nearby substation and killed the power all day. Glad to finally live somewhere with a few redundant systems in place

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A squirrel did the same thing and brought down the computer systems of a 3-year-old, CA$1.3B super hospital complex in one of Canada's biggest cities: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/how-a-squirrel-broug...

Don't rely on systems being redundant just because you're somewhere they should be!

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