Just after midnight on July 1, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, was plunged into darkness as a massive power cut affected approximately 6,500 customers. The culprit? A snake.
Dominion Energy runs the electrical substation and confirmed that a snake had slithered across a crucial piece of equipment and triggered an automatic safety shutdown. In a report on WHSV3, Dominion Energy spokesman Craig Carper explained:
