A senseless death? Or a miracle?

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As I was walking up my outside stairs this morning, I heard a muted explosion just to the Southeast of me. I must have intuited somehow that it was electrical in nature, because my eyes immediately went to the electrical transformer (or whatever it is) on the wooden power pole behind the carports for our apartment complex. Then I looked down the pole and saw something sad. A young squirrel was lying upside down on the roof of the carport, twitching. But he wasn't smoking, and he wasn't torn open. He must have gone over a familiar route, not knowing that water conducts electricity, and electrocuted himself. I started thinking, "You can make it, little guy!" when he managed to roll over onto his stomach (that's when I snapped the picture), but he then lay still. I assumed he had gone to squirrel heaven. I sat at my desk, feeling depressed, but when I looked back over at the spot where he'd fallen, he was gone! I went outside to investigate, and found him trying to climb the power pole from which he'd fallen. His progress was slow, and his body was still twitching, but he was trying. When I'd view him from one side of the pole, he'd move to the other, as squirrels are supposed to do. I went back in side and got may camera again. If this post receives any comments, I'll attach a picture of him climbing (if the picture on comments bug is fixed). I scolded him in squirrel language as best as I could. I wanted him to know that he was going back into the danger zone. The last I saw of him, he had made it to the lowest wooden ledge on the power pole (telephone wires, I think), and was looking right at me. I went inside and got some wild bird seed, which I placed on the fence in plain sight from where he was perched. I wonder if he'll make it.