Squirrel Power Outages

It's worse than we thought.

"In Georgia, squirrel-related outages more than tripled from 5,273 in 2005 to 16,750 in 2006."

Not only are those numbers shocking (so to speak), but the rate of increase is ominous.

Of special note: "Hundreds of gallons of raw sewage poured into Mobile Bay in Alabama after a squirrel cut power to a sewage lift station there."

That must have been one nasty squirrel.

Getting back to the numbers -- isn't it interesting that Georgia Power knows the exact number of squirrel-related outages? So obviously that information must be going into a database somewhere.

$ select count(*) from INCIDENTS where YEAR=2005 and ANIMAL='squirrel'
$ 5273

If that's the case, I would love someone to run this query:

$ select distinct ANIMAL from INCIDENTS