09/03/2026
If you noticed your lights fading for a second on Monday morning, the culprit was a squirrel that got into an AMU switch near Kossuth Regional Health Center. Nationally, squirrels rank among the top disruptions to the electric grid alongside severe weather. There were no power outages from the incident, due in part to the redundancy built into AMU's equipment. Watch the upper left corner of the attached video for a flash the moment the squirrel made contact with the open switch.