Tuesday, January 30, 2007

I got a post from someone I know asking me if it was true. after all its all over the news even i saw it as a ticker down on the bottom of fox news.
Juneau Alaska was with out power for awhile because an eagle holding a deer head flew into a power box they later found the eagle dead.

My reply was this .

yep its all over the news up here. I lost ours for a second but my daughter was with out for over an hour. talk about the pits now we can actually say in Alaska it don't rain cats and dogs it rains eagles and deer heads LOL hey nothing like being Alaskan got to change it all, even our animals are on that wave length.

Of course leave it to me to think what was that eagle thinking hum maybe he was mad at the state legislators for some reason and decided to dive bomb the place. Gesh ya never know huh. Maybe Bush can add this eagle to his list of known terrorists LOL no no wait the eagle died in the deer head bombing. oh daaaaaaaaa I get it a suicide deer head bombing eagle. LOL
For shame crissy the eagle is our national bird. ok with that I am going to go do penance and clean my house. drink large amounts of coffee and drive away in my truck that the flat is now fixed on.:)

and here you thought I just made this stuff up huh?:) like my daughter said though when she found out why she was late for work hey its a Manic Monday Alaskan style LOL

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here is the actual news paper clip from Juneau Empire our local news paper
author below the article

About 10,000 Juneau residents lost power Sunday after a bald eagle lugging a deer head crashed into an Alaska Electric Light & Power transmission system in Lemon Creek."You have to live in Alaska to have this kind of outage scenario," said Gayle Wood, an AEL&P spokeswoman. "This is the story of the overly ambitious eagle who evidently found a deer head in the landfill."
The meal was apparently too heavy. The eagle failed to clear transmission lines as it flew from the landfill toward the Lemon Creek Operation Center, she said. When a repair crew arrived, they found the eagle carcass with the deer head nearby.
The outage started about 9:45 a.m. and affected customers in Salmon Creek, Lemon Creek, the Mendenhall Valley and Out the Road, Wood said. It was completely fixed by 10:28 a.m.
"It was a speedy recovery because a crew was already mobilized, and because a customer managed to hear the explosion," Wood said. "So we were able to narrow it in pretty quickly."
The landfill has a program in place to discourage eagles, ravens and other birds from feeding, she said. But this eagle "got a hold of a little bit more than he could handle."
"This would have been a major score," Wood said. "That eagle would have been the king eagle of the Lemon Creek group."
• Ken Lewis can be reached at ken.lewis@juneauempire.com.

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