No electricity for 40,000 Seattle homes

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Nicky Woolf

Nearly 40,000 homes were without power on Wednesday morning after a raccoon broke into a substation in Seattle, Washington, and single-pawedly brought down the electric grid in a dozen suburbs.
The creature caused 13 separate system outages during its brief but energetic visit.

Adam Mertz (@AJMertz)

Want to see the raccoon that knocked out power overnight in Seattle? Here's our video @djackthephotog https://t.co/dZeWbwIrw1 via @Q13FOX

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Seattle Power and Light tweeted that “an animal entered one of our substations” in the early hours of the morning, causing a power outage that stretched across the suburbs from Golden Gardens Park to Queen Anne, north of the city.Eyewitness Jeff Pierce, who lives near the substation, told KIRO7 that he heard an explosion just before 3am, and then saw city workers and a dazed raccoon that had been shocked inside the substation.
Sadly, the raccoon did not survive the experience, Seattle Power and Light confirmed on Twitter.

On Twitter, some users were already calling the event the Great Seattle Raccoon Blackout of 2016.

Nearly 40,000 homes were without power on Wednesday morning after a raccoon broke into a substation in Seattle, Washington, and single-pawedly brought down the electric grid in a dozen suburbs.The creature caused 13 separate system outages during its brief but energetic visit.

Adam Mertz (@AJMertz)

Want to see the raccoon that knocked out power overnight in Seattle? Here's our video @djackthephotog https://t.co/dZeWbwIrw1 via @Q13FOX

May 11, 2016

Rescued raccoon finds new life as a house pet and Instagram star

Seattle Power and Light tweeted that “an animal entered one of our substations” in the early hours of the morning, causing a power outage that stretched across the suburbs from Golden Gardens Park to Queen Anne, north of the city.Eyewitness Jeff Pierce, who lives near the substation, told KIRO7 that he heard an explosion just before 3am, and then saw city workers and a dazed raccoon that had been shocked inside the substation.
Sadly, the raccoon did not survive the experience, Seattle Power and Light confirmed on Twitter.

On Twitter, some users were already calling the event the Great Seattle Raccoon Blackout of 2016.Electricity was not fully restored until about 8am, according to the utility.

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