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that al gore cant explain away by blameing SUVs - mother nature at her best - in bill clintons home town no less

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Jun 13, 3:06 PM EDT


Gnawing beaver knocks out phones, services in Ark.

HOPE, Ark. (AP) -- A beaver took a nibble out of a fiber optic cable northeast of Hope and knocked out telephones and other services to part of southwest Arkansas. Rain washed away soil that had covered the line about 10 miles from Hope and the beaver bit through it early Wednesday.

AT&T spokeswoman Natasha Collins said the beaver-caused outage affected Ashdown, Bodcaw, Hope and Nashville.

Emergency officials say 911 calls had to be rerouted. A manager at a Hope Wal-Mart says customers could not pay with debit cards and that credit cards could be used for only small amounts.

A bill paying center was knocked out, and area gas stations were only able to accept cash.

Service went out at about 6:30 a.m. and was restored a little before 5 p.m

and the biggest complaint was they couldnt use their check cards at walmart

that was some kinda nasty beaver - knawing on that creasote soaked pole - ick

That was a buried line that was exposed by the rain and no wood around.

Rad

hah , my mistake - i should have reread , id just skimmed it first time thru and imagined it to say the rain had the pole in or close to the beavers habitat , makeing it fair game .............not sure why it might want to knaw on a cable

Seems like it would have worked out either way -TR

.......some years back,mother-in-law's 1998 Olds 88 had sat in garage for about a year-undriven(alzheimers)....while czeching things out under the hood to 'revive' it,I found a chipmunk nest and all kinda acorn pieces parts scattered about.....wouldnt start-they had chewed thru ignition wires,actually just about any wiring that was under there...