cookiejar Posted May 9, 2008 Share Posted May 9, 2008 NORTH BROWARD Electrocuted lizard zaps power in North Broward Posted on Fri, May. 09, 2008Digg del.icio.us AIM reprint print email Power has been restored to 20,000 people in northern Broward County after an iguana caused a short circuit. The critter came in contact with some high-voltage equipment, which triggered Thursday's outage. Electricity was out for roughly half an hour. The iguana wasn't as lucky. Florida Power & Light spokesman Mayco Villafana says: ``It's gone to another place.'' Link to comment
CrabGrassAcres Posted May 9, 2008 Share Posted May 9, 2008 We get snakes in transformers sometimes that short stuff out. I'm glad the phone line doesn't carry much juice. My geese love to chew through the cable any chance they get. The phone guy doesn't think my connection is cool, but it stops the geese so I don't care how it looks. LOL Link to comment
MommaDogs Posted May 10, 2008 Share Posted May 10, 2008 At my last job, we frequently had outages as squirrels got onto the power lines. Link to comment
zzelle Posted May 10, 2008 Share Posted May 10, 2008 we had a squirrel blow a transformer and power lines went out the transformer was on fire people where with out power for about 5-6 hrs and the poor squirrel was sat on fire Link to comment
mommato3boys Posted May 10, 2008 Share Posted May 10, 2008 Originally Posted By: MommaDogs At my last job, we frequently had outages as squirrels got onto the power lines. We had a Y2Squirel...Yep you read that right it was around noon on 1/1/00 and we lost power. We just knew Y2K had happen and we would be stuck at my mothers but come to find out is was just a squirrel that was cold and was looking for a warm spot. Link to comment
preparing Posted May 10, 2008 Share Posted May 10, 2008 We had a Y2Squirel That is funny! lol I would have fainted for sure! Link to comment
cookiejar Posted May 10, 2008 Author Share Posted May 10, 2008 Originally Posted By: preparing We had a Y2Squirel That is funny! lol I would have fainted for sure! We would have been three in a row on the carpet! Link to comment
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