Beavers Cause British Colombia Power Outage

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After all those eons of development, the little four-legged creatures with very big teeth still do what they've always done. And Man feels the results when Ma Nature acts like she always has.

Hydro workers have restored power to about 700 residents in the B.C. Interior who lost it when a slide of mud and trees took out power lines along Cooke Creek, 25 kilometres east of Enderby.

That's a relief for those who were cut off from heat and communications after Friday morning's mudslide, but officials are still trying to clear debris that has trapped almost 200 people.

North Okanagan District officer Jackie Pearase says it appears an ice jam over a beaver dam thawed in the warm weather and caused the slide, which completely covered Mabel Lake Road and decimated a vital salmon hatchery.

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