I wonder which one of Zipp's family it was this time....
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A squirrel is blamed for an electrical outage in Fort Worth that affected thousands of customers and prompted a boil-water advisory for parts of the city.
Oncor spokeswoman Carol Peters says the rodent Friday got into a substation and made a connection between two high-voltage points, causing an arc.
Peters told The Associated Press that the transformer sensed the surge, caused by the now-deceased squirrel, and shut down.
Service was interrupted to about 10,000 customers and two Fort Worth water department pumping stations. Electricity was restored within one hour.
