Squirrel Blamed for San Jose Power Outage

NBC Bay Area ^ | Wednesday, Mar 19, 2014

[nickcarraway]

A squirrel caused a power outage that left nearly 1,200 PG&E customers in San Jose without power Wednesday morning, a utility spokeswoman said.

The outage was first reported around 8:20 a.m. and affected 1,180 customers in the city's College Park neighborhood, according to PG&E spokeswoman Monica Tell.

She said a squirrel came into contact with some PG&E equipment in the area, causing the outage.

One of the customers affected was Caltrain's San Jose dispatching center, according to Tell. The outage caused the dispatching center to fail and led trains to stop, causing major system-wide delays.

The area impacted was bounded by The Alameda, Taylor, Ashbury and Stockton. The SJ Unified School District office and Caltrain were both impacted by the outage, Tell said.

Power was restored by around 11 a.m.

[potlatch]

Depends on your meaning of “all right”, snicker.

[tioga]

Was the squirrel all right? —I think it was a bit overcooked.

[Steel Shoe]

Obama was in San Jose?

[Veggie Todd]

[nothingnew]

I thought that was "Is the beaver alright?"

Is that Ward asking June a question? I have heard Ward was a little hard on the beaver...

FMCDH(BITS)

[aimhigh]

A Post crispy critter.

[hoagy62]

Is that a MOOSE hanging from the wire??????

Just how the blazes did it get up there????

[Flag_This]

Yes, it is. There’s a link to the news story on post #20 that tells the whole sad story.

[hoagy62]

Oooooohhhh. I read the story. Got it. Still pretty weird.

[potlatch]

Lol, very true!

[COBOL2Java]

This is what happens when Obama sends Biden overseas!

[Chode]

not as wise as he thought he was

[21twelve]

I’m glad this is a new outage. I was thinking it might have been that big one awhile ago where the substation got all shot up!

[martin_fierro]

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[ProtectOurFreedom]

I worked in Campbell next door to San Jose. A huge crow landed on the power pole outside our office and his wings spanned the two conductors. Poof! All the lights in the business park were out and there was fried crow at the bottom of the pole. Only 126 million more to go.

[Vendome]

Lil rat....

[Vendome]

LOL!

I remember that

[Vendome]

Looks like yer pic rode the lightning .....

[Veggie Todd]

Looks like yer pic rode the lightning .....

Besides being a great Metallica album, I'm not sure what that means. But I don't get out much. :)

[Vendome]

Play on words.

Sometimes when we ZOT an idiot, we let them ride the lightning.

Seems this lil feller rode the lightning to heaven.

Maybe he can say hi to my dog?...

Would be great if he could.