The best sentence I’ve read in a while is: “Birds can cause insulator flashovers due to their long streams of stringy, conductive and semi-liquid excrement.” I just had to share.*
I’m working on a follow-up to the a 13,000-customer outage this weekend caused by a hawk knocking out transmission lines. “Surfin’ Bird” is now stuck in my head.
*that is social-media-speak for “impose on others”