Blame it on a “varmint.”
Several thousand Wichita Falls residents were without power for a while Sunday night.
Oncor Customer Operations Executive Gordon Drake said the outage occurred when a “varmint” got into some equipment at a substation on Jacksboro Highway. The result was an electrical outage that started about 6:30 p.m. Sunday.
Drake said about 8,117 customers were initially affected, but crews were called in, and all the power was restored to all customers by about 11:30 p.m., he said.
Drake said animals are a major cause of outages.
“We’ve had raccoons, we’ve had snakes. There’s just a lot of varmints moving this time of year. Squirrels are a problem for us all the time,” he said. “They get up on people’s transformers in the alleys, and it causes a fault and we’ll have an outage on five or six houses.”
This article originally appeared on Wichita Falls Times Record News: Oncor: ‘Varmint’ responsible for Sunday power outage
Reporting by Lynn Walker, Wichita Falls Times Record News / Wichita Falls Times Record News
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