Apparently LLNL (Lawrence Livermore National Lab) has had a rash of blown transformers lately. It seems some mystery squirrels may be to blame:

[10:13am] neb: My understanding is that it won't be up until at least 12PM PST
[10:14am] nic__: ouch
[10:14am] neb: There were literally half a dozen facility type people working in the area when I headed back home.
[10:15am] nic__: wow. you know it is serious when >2 show up
[10:15am] neb: Last week we had the tranformer blow that took out thunder.
[10:15am] nic__: seems to be a pattern...
[10:15am] neb: And there was a joke going around about a "drop squirrel".
 [10:16am] nic__: LOL
[10:16am] nic__: that just smells bad...not that I would know or anthing
[10:16am] nic__: anything even
[10:16am] neb: The joke is, that any time something serious goes wrong the facilities people reach into their freezer and 
 get a dead frozen squirrel and drop in at the site of the problem. That way they affix blame on someone other than themselves.
[10:17am] neb: "Oh shit this looks bad. Quick grab a drop squirrel"

It’s official — my first piece of squirrel humor. Oh wow…I should really put a story up from my Philadelphia apartment. Anna, you kill me for that one ?

And of course there was more later…

neb: westlund, how are things going there. Are you physically at the lab?
[3:57pm] acu-home: I haven't heard a peep in hours
[3:58pm] neb: That russian ICBM must have really done a number on stuff.
[3:59pm] acu-home: Wasn't an ICBM.  They say a squirrel got into the prototype matter converter.
[3:59pm] neb: I thought that was just the "cover story"
[4:00pm] neb: The one we were supposed to tell everyone so that they wouldn't know what really happened
[4:00pm] acu-home: The hidden story is that the squirrel is still in there 
[4:01pm] acu-home: looks out window and see 38 ton squirrel go by
[4:01pm] neb: You mean that the when the drop squirrel got hit with the radiation it developed super powers and is now on a rampage.
[4:02pm] acu-home: shhhh