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Beaver connected to cause of four alarm fire in Sherman
“The property owner reported to us that for the last couple of days they had some electrical issues within the building itself,” said Sherman Fire Chief JJ Jones.
Those issues reported include power outages, surges and even noticeable sparks within electrical panels along the walls. Sherman crews had help from twelve different fire departments across Texoma as well as help from Sherman Public Works, Red Cross and Oncor.
“During fire fighter operations one of our officers reported that there was still power to one of the areas so Oncor came back out my fire investigator went back out with the Oncor representative,” he said, “and they did find a tree that had fallen by a beaver- very recently.“
Doesn’t this look like a beaver-chewed tree to you? You know how they always make those nice even blade cuts right before they start a fire? They obviously stuffed themselves on that delicious tree, got exhausted, and went to sleep it off in bed.
While smoking.
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Officials had plan to clear beaver dam under Sunset Harbor Road before washout
Before a beaver dam caused part of a Brunswick County roadway to collapse late last month, state transportation officials knew they had a furry problem inside a pipe running under Sunset Harbor Road.
“The Thursday before this blew out we were meeting with the U.S. Department of Agriculture,” said Trevor Carroll, division bridge engineer for the DOT’s Southeastern division.
The plan was set. Trap the perpetrator and set off a small pack of dynamite to clear the 72-inch pipe.
“Word is out that beavers contributed to this,” Carroll said
Boys with toys. If only they’d had time to use the dynamite, none of this would ever have happened! Of course they couldn’t have installed a beaver deceiver to protect that culvert. Why do you ask? Honestly, Brunswick might want to rethink their media management policy. The entire article basically reads, “We knew it was there, we knew it’d would be a problem, we came up with a solution, but decided to do nothing.”
Never mind that their ‘solution’ wouldn’t have worked anyway. Lets just use their own logic to point out their negligence.
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Letter: County should look into beaver contamination
I would think that looking into the beavers camping out and backing up the water would be a good place to start investigating the bacteria in Strawberry Creek. On the East Coast there is absolutely no swimming in beaver ponds due to a condition commonly called “beaver fever.”
Since there is no other real logical explanation I would hope the county looks into that as a possible source of contamination.
You see this Humbolt County beach got a bad grade from the water advocacy group because it had bacteria. And this letter advices them to STOP looking in the problem and just blame the beavers.
Heal the Bay gave Clam Beach County Park near Strawberry Park the low water quality rating for “potential bacteria sources,” which include “onsite sewage treatment systems, wildlife, domestic animals and vegetation,” according to the annual Beach Report Card. The beach also made the organization’s annual “Beach Bummer” list for the second time, ranking No. 6.
Right. I wouldn’t worry about that “onsite sewage treatment”. I’m reminded of one of my favorite old jokes where the woman sees her husband on his hands and knees in the kitchen.
“What are you doing?” She asks. “I lost my contact lenses” he explains, and she starts to help. “Wait, didn’t you lose them in the living room?” she wonders “Yes, but the light’s better in here. ____________________________________________________________Don’t you ever have any good news about beavers? I’m glad you asked. I’ve been saving this lovely treat from our retired engineer beaver friend in New Hampshire. He has been lovingly engaged with a battle with some beaver blocking the culvert in his condominium. He installed a flow device upstream, but now they plugged the pipe downstream. He retaliated by fencing the pipe. And just look what happens.
Awesome footage Art, and I don’t want to bore you with too much psychology but there are very detailed and advanced procedures used for measuring empathy and awareness of point-of-view in toddlers, that if applied to the “helper beaver” would dramatically improve the social IQ of beavers in general. (Not to mention the fact that the adult probably came in the first place because the kit was whining). Someone call the Smithsonian!
