One of the worst stories I read about this kind of outage was not funny at all: organized gangs in England were tearing up copper wiring for all kinds of things to sell on the black market,...in fact, I do not know if they have this under control yet there or not
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Wily Raccoon Knocks Power Out in Summit, NJ
Thursday, December 19, 2013
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Raccoon (Photo by Sam Greenwood/Getty Images)
A wily raccoon knocked power out to some 3,100 JCP&L customers in Summit, New Jersey around 2 a.m. Thursday.
Spokesman Gerry Ricciardi said the animal crawled under a fence
and on top of "an energized piece of electric equipment" at the Summit
substation. Power was restored to most customers by 9 a.m. Ricciardi
said a few lingering outages were repaired by 2:30 p.m.
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Annmarie Fertoli, Associate Producer, WNYC News
Annmarie Fertoli is an Associate Producer at WNYC, working with the afternoon news team to produce All Things Considered.
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