Good thinking. We get cougars on the rare occasion in our suburban neighborhood. They travel the east-west “wilderness corridor” until it hits the north-south electrical/petroleum route and then follow that.
I keep a pair of large bolt cutters in the truck so that will be useful. And we are right near the recently fortified electrical substation - so can get around that easy enough. That is sort of a interesting/spooky place. Several years after 9-11 they did a lot of construction on the place. Dump trucks were moving in and out for months. No new buildings or structures except for a double fence around the entire place and a large “decorative” wall around the front. Decroative in the sense of randomly missing blocks in the wall. I’m guessing to be used as gun ports.
A neighbor that worked for one of the competing companies that lost the bid for the work said they built a new structure five stories deep. That would make sense with all of the dump trucks.
I like to relate that story - if the government and the utility companies think it is wise to spend millions of dollars on one facility - we should also be putting some effort into planning for a disaster. I’m still curious as to what it is all about they have there - it is a relatively small substation and office building surrounded by residential homes.
I suspect that substation supports a government facility.