I have noticed suspicious squirrel activity around the trees in front of my office building: chattering, an aggressive flicking of tails, digging around in the pine straw around the trees, chasing each other around the tree trunks. They're trying to act like they're nut-hunting, but maybe that's just what they want us to think.
I don't know about you, but I'm going to keep a close eye on those critters. They may look cute, but.........
Ironically enough, my own "squirrel saboteur" experience took place in Houston as well.
About six years ago, I was at work in an office building on Westheimer at Augusta when we heard a muffled "BANG", and the power began fluctuating wildly. It quickly went to a brownout condition for about 20 seconds, then failed completely.
It was soon discovered that a squirrel had managed to bridge the terminals on a nearby power pole transformer with its furry little body, causing a short circuit.
This was easily confirmed by looking out the window -- our offices overlooked the pole in question, and we could see the charred body of the squirrel laying across the transformer. In fact, it was still there and visible, petrified, several months later.
Computers can handle power outages without much trouble, but brownouts are bad news for them, and about a dozen computers in our offices were seriously fried and needed extensive repairs.
Landmark Graphics was our main competitor at the time, so we jokingly postulated that they had sent the squirrel to attack us, and for years thereafter the squirrel was known as "the Landmark squirrel".