Posted on 03/19/2014 2:37:25 PM PDT by 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.
Zotted Owl? Isn’t that an endangered species?
Walked
Before the snow melted, eh?
No he wasn’t
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