A tiny, mischievous squirrel was the culprit behind a giant power outage that left around 10,000 people without electricity in Portland, Oregon!
The rodent managed to climb into the substation on Monday morning and caused an outage that took three hours to fix! A Portland General Electric spokeswoman said that this is actually a frequent occurrence since just one touch of a live animal can cause an outage.
Only a few days before this happening, about 5,000 residents of Gladstone, Oregon were the victims of a similar outage caused by a pesky animal! Surprisingly, Oregon isn’t the only state where squirrels deprive residents of electricity since parts of West Virginia and Kansas have also reported power outages caused by vexing rodents!