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so even though i think the pictures tell the story pretty well… here it is. joshua had brought me lunch at the birth center yesterday, and as we were finishing up, i was looking out the side window to the park next door, and right then, we heard this deafening bang, like someone had fired a gun or set off a bomb right outside the window, and we saw this lightning fast flash of light.
we ran outside on the front porch, as did sarah and two guys from the building next door. everyone was asking each other if they saw anything, or knew what that sound was. there was nothing, just this awful smell in the air. i was expecting the front of our building to have been blown off, or a meteorite hole in the street, or an exploded SUV or something.
then one of the guys looked down on the ground and saw the squirrel, with blood coming out of its nose. it’s whiskers were all singed down, and all its fur was burned. we guess it must’ve touched two electrical lines, crossed a charge, and gotten electrocuted and thrown off the power lines. sarah poked it with a stick for a bit and joshua, bravely, got a garbage bag and threw it away (we’ve got pregnant women and little kids coming up that sidewalk all day long and that thing was nasty).
not only did it fry the squirrel, it fried our printer at work, too. it was amazing.