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[psychic_serpent]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Anne" <anneu53714 at y...> 
wrote:
> Haha... in Alabama, at least at the University of Alabama in 
> Tuscaloosa, it is believed that the number one cause of power 
> outages at that university is squirrels. Apparently they enjoy 
> chewing their way through the electrical wiring, especially the 
> lines that go into and out of the University's computer hub.
 
Well, I'm in Philadelphia, not Alabama, but we've had an awful time 
at our church keeping squirrels out of the lofts in the sanctuary, 
where the pipe organ works are, including the wiring that lets the 
console communicate with the pipes.  These animals will chew through 
any kind of wire they can sink their teeth into!  Our poor organ has 
been out of use more than in use in the last eight years.  Some 
folks in the congregation who are recent additions didn't even KNOW 
we had a real pipe organ--they never noticed the console behind the 
decorative wood screen and hadn't looked up and noticed the enormous 
pipes at one end of each loft (and we have some 32 footers, too, big 
square wooden pipes which bend in the middle to accomodate the slope 
of the roof).

Of course, our church is involved in a lot of peace missions, so 
we've struggled over how to deal with the squirrel problem without 
any KILLING actually being involved....which means, I think, that we 
will continued to not have an organ for quite a while longer....

--Barb

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