Posted on 09/18/2018 6:05:34 AM PDT by ETL
A cat in Louisiana reportedly cut power to more than 7,500 people when it snuck into a substation early Monday.
Entergy New Orleans tweeted around 9:30 a.m. the cat "got into a substation that feeds parts of Uptown, Central City, Mid-City, and the [Central Business District] and caused a flash when it came into contact with [their] equipment."
Power was restored to customers hours later, around 11:30 a.m., the company said.
The cat, which did not survive the incident, wasn't the first animal to find its way into a substation, but it was "unusual," Entergy said.
"Generally, squirrels and other small animals find their way in," the company stated. "Entergy installs protective devices to help keep animals out of our equipment not only to avoid power outages, but also to keep animals out of harm’s way. "
Animals sometimes make it past those devices, the company said, and "when this happens, the animals unfortunately do not survive contact with high-voltage equipment."
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Didn’t Robert Conrad do commercials for that back in the 70s?
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.
“Me-owww!”
Seriously, though, poor kitty. :-(
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.
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