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Imagine a single beaver casually deciding one morning that yes, today feels like rearranging civilization - by chomping through fiber-optic internet cables and bringing web and cell service to its knees for nearly 900 customers in a small northern British Columbia town. That’s exactly what happened when a very industrious rodent gnawed multiple points of buried telecom cable, causing widespread outages in places like Tumbler Ridge and beyond, in what providers called a “very bizarre and uniquely Canadian turn of events”.
Beavers are famous for chewing wood and building dams, but in this case they didn’t stop at trees - they burrowed underground alongside a creek to reach a fiber line buried about three feet deep, even chewing through the protective conduit before tackling the cable itself. Their handiwork knocked out internet and TV service for days while crews worked around the clock to repair the damage through frozen ground and tangled wires.
It’s a wonderfully chaotic reminder that nature doesn’t check its schedule before deciding to “improve” a landscape - and sometimes the most charming critters make the biggest unexpected dents in modern technology.
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