Let the beavers take a rural Canadian community further off the grid by gnawing through the city’s fiber optic cable, leaving about 900 residents with no internet or cellular access.
In a « very bizarre and unique Canadian phrase, « one or more of the pesky animals » had « badly » damaged the urban internet cable in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, causing an outage that began around 4 a.m. on Saturday, The Candian Broadcasting Corporation reported on Sunday.
» Our team found a dam nearby, and it appears that the beavers dug underground along the creek to reach our cable, which is buried about three feet underground and protected by a 4.5 inch thick pipe, » Liz Sauvé, a spokeswoman for Canada’s Telus Mobility, wrote in a statement on Sunday.
« The beavers chewed through the pipe first before chewing through the cable in several places, » said Sauvé, who believes the woodchucks intended to build a lodge using Telus’ equipment, as beavers are used to .
So determined to dig good materials that natural builders have been able to eat through circuitry normally buried underground.
« Beavers chewed through our fiber optic cable in several places and caused great damage, » Sauvé Gizmodo added in a separate statement. « It appears that the beavers dug underground along the creek to reach our cable. »
The web and cell phone service was fully restored at 6:30 pm. Local time on Sunday after the technicians worked “around the clock” to investigate the damage, which was made even more inaccessible by the icy weather conditions.
These relentless rodents are known to vandalize forest communities. Their insatiable urge to contain waterways has resulted in flooding while cutting trees at alarming rates. These, of course, are the dangers of sharing a habitat with the hardworking creatures.
In regions where beavers have not roamed in the past, their passionate nesting has recently become a global concern. Last year, a report from environmental researchers found that beavers that recently moved to the warming Arctic are initiating climate change by settling on thawed permafrost, where billions of tons of ancient carbon dioxide – twice what is currently in the atmosphere – are present are – and other greenhouse gases are stored.
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