Posted on 10/03/2020 6:36:40 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
It was widescale chaos.
Thousands of people in South Dakota were left in the dark when a bird dropped a snake into an electrical substation, according to NorthWestern Energy.
More than 3,300 NorthWestern customers in Aberdeen, S.D. lost power for an hour Wednesday when a bird dropped a 3-foot-long garter snake into a substation, the company wrote in a Facebook post. Crews responded and were able to restore service quickly.
The rugged reptile somehow survived the fall, but didnt escape unscathed....
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Substations are afraid of snakes....Who knew??
The snake must have hit two lines at the same time.
I would be amazed if it’s not dead.
Earlier this year, hundreds of households in Scotland lost power after bull with an itchy bum rubbed up against an electrical pole, knocking down a transformer.
And in 2017, residents of Prince Albert, Canada were taken offline when a beaver gnawed through a pole, weakening it enough for strong winds to ultimately bring it down.
When I worked for the local power company, it was always squirrels blowing out the cutouts without squirrel shields attached.
Antifa bird?
>>I would be amazed if its not dead.<<
Or it has mutated into a giant electric hydra dragon.
Ahhhhh.....the old snake bomb.
“I’ve had enough of these &#£%£&$!@ing snakes in this @#&$£$#%ing substation!”
Lol. When I lived in Southeast Asia we would lose power with some regularity when Pythons would climb power poles and bridge across the lines. You could hear the power transformers explode and then, power loss.
Squirrels are a real menace. But many of them do get run over by cars. The average driver will run over a squirrel every six years. Given that there are 240 million motorists in the USA - that translates into 40,000,000 squirrels getting run over every year.
Now that's a lot of squirrels getting run over by cars.
That would be sweet.
Whoa! I bet the US Air Force would like to talk to that bird. That was the money shot alright.
So, do we blame the bird or the snake? Or was it a conspiracy?
“Or it has mutated into a giant electric hydra dragon’’. Oh crap! Now we’re done for. Quick, lock the doors, nail boards at irregular angles across the windows!
Ditto. How is that thing no vaporized into charcoal dust?
The bird was just trying to cook his lunch and teach people that electric BBQ grills work,
No clue. I’ve seen Canadian geese “melted” to a transformer cutout.
That snake hit the lines at the head of a distribution circuit.
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