Sunday, September 18, 2011

Squirrel Causes Major Power Outage

{West Virginia}...AEP officials say power was restored to nearly 4,000 customers in South Charleston Sunday morning after a squirrel got into a substation near the South Hills area and shorted out a live line, causing a power outage in areas including MacCorkle Avenue, Davis Creek Road, Jefferson Road. It also resulted in major thoroughfares losing traffic signals.