"Did I do that?"
A cat got into a substation that feeds parts of Uptown, Central City, Mid-City, and the CBD, and caused a flash when it came into contact with our equipment.
Crews are safely working to make equipment repairs and restore power to all as quickly as possible.
7:32 AM - 17 Sep 2018
Musta been a cat house.
AKA, how to use up all nine lives at once...
I knew it. This is the first stage of their insidious plan to take over the world!
CAT’S MUST BE STOPPED!!!
"Did I do that?"
and the dog ate my homework...
The only Sylvester chasing Tweety bird excuse?
What will it be next a Coyote and they’ll blame Wiley Coyote chasing the Road Runner? That will only be believable if it’s an Acme Power Station.
It’s not the first time it’s happened.
Many years ago, during my days working at River Bend Nuclear Station, a cat managed to get under the fence and crawl up on one of the main step up transformers. It got across a phase and ground...230KV. It immediately shut down the entire facility....960MW went off the grid right during the morning inrush. The cat was completely vaporized. How’d they know it was a cat? Security cameras caught it, but no one could get there fast enough to take action before it did it’s dastardly deed. Fencing was upgraded to address both 4-legged as well as 2-legged “animal control”. Security procedures were also upgraded.
When a cat or squirrel shorts the high voltage power line prior to the transformer it goes bang with an explosion and it stinks of burnt hair in the area for a time after.
Yellow ones are Tasty!
Had one of those several years ago in South Florida - a lizard shorted out a 7.2 kV line to ground right in front of our house. A linemen showed up and reset the circuit. He said that during the mating season, the male lizards climb up to high places (I guess to look for mates). When I laughed, he spontaneously broke into song: “Lookin’ for love in all the wrong places ...” (-:
Black cat now...
Squirrels built a nest at the top of a power pole feeding our house and did the same thing - one fried itself in the act so I forgave it...
I think sweet pea and loudmouth miss you.
Clearly a case of people at the electric company inadequately blocking off the substation access—not the fault of a cat being a cat.
In our rural area, the lights go off, and a good portion of the community head to the substation to find out what got fried. LOL
Poor kitty..
Poor baby kitty...I hope it didn’t suffer.