RICHMOND, Va. - A squirrel caused a massive power outage in Richmond that eventually led to thousands without power.
The curious animal short-circuited a Dominion Virginia Power substation on Friday morning and crews making repairs to that facility caused a second substation to shut down.
At the height of the outages, about 6,000 Dominion customers in Richmond were in the dark.
Power was out along a significant stretch downtown, disabling traffic signals at several major intersections for most of the day.
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Squirrels, Snow, Wind Storms, We’ve seen the after-effects, entire communities without power!
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