Sep 24, 2026 · 2 hr 51 min · 12 segments
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Squirrels on suicide missions have knocked out power to the town of Castle Rock twice this week.
Both animals snuck into a core electric substation and struck a blow for squirreldom, going out in a blaze of glory.
Their attacks on our way of life are a reminder.
November 1940.
Exile is ordered.
Mean, vicious, and destructive.
We were once united against the threat, despite the media's pro-squirrel propaganda and collaborators at City Hall willing to put rodents ahead of residents.
Jefferson, Clear Creek, and Gilpin counties joined the fight.
Squirrel war breaks out anew.
The animals up their attacks on our infrastructure.
1956, a squirrel sacrifices itself in an attack on the transmitter of KLZ-TV, foreshadowing a similar assault on Channel 7 decades later.
A squirrel was actually praised for saving 7 million gallons of water during the drought of 56 for knocking out power at the Denver Water Board and preventing a day of lawn watering.
The media's sympathetic framing of the squirrel's guerrilla tactics continued.
Squirrel gets charge out of life.
Soft-pedaling their decades of destructive assaults on the power systems that illuminate America as they fried Transformers along with their furry little behinds kept us in the dark in more ways than one, lulling us into believing we needed to live this way.
Squirrel front stays quiet, lied the pro-critter press, falsely framing the fried squirrel attacks of the 1970s as victories for voltage.
By the 1980s, when a squirrel ravaged the campus of Colorado State, we were awakened to the danger.
We began to harden our infrastructure.
It was too late.
Squirrels on suicide missions have knocked out power to the town of Castle Rock twice this week.
Both animals snuck into a core electric substation and struck a blow for squirreldom, going out in a blaze of glory.
Their attacks on our way of life are a reminder.
November 1940.
Exile is ordered.
Mean, vicious, and destructive.
We were once united against the threat, despite the media's pro-squirrel propaganda and collaborators at City Hall willing to put rodents ahead of residents.
Jefferson, Clear Creek, and Gilpin counties joined the fight.
Squirrel war breaks out anew.
The animals up their attacks on our infrastructure.
1956, a squirrel sacrifices itself in an attack on the transmitter of KLZ-TV, foreshadowing a similar assault on Channel 7 decades later.
A squirrel was actually praised for saving 7 million gallons of water during the drought of 56 for knocking out power at the Denver Water Board and preventing a day of lawn watering.
The media's sympathetic framing of the squirrel's guerrilla tactics continued.
Squirrel gets charge out of life.
Soft-pedaling their decades of destructive assaults on the power systems that illuminate America as they fried Transformers along with their furry little behinds kept us in the dark in more ways than one, lulling us into believing we needed to live this way.
Squirrel front stays quiet, lied the pro-critter press, falsely framing the fried squirrel attacks of the 1970s as victories for voltage.
By the 1980s, when a squirrel ravaged the campus of Colorado State, we were awakened to the danger.
We began to harden our infrastructure.
It was too late.
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