Squirrel caused power outage for 10,000 LUS customers

by Squirrel Dish on December 18, 2006

When will they learn?

Lafayette, LA — A squirrel crossing a power line on Gilman Street near Cora Drive left 10,165 LUS customers in the dark this morning.

The outage occurred at 9:41 a.m. with power back up to about 9,000 customers within six minutes, said Terry Huval, LUS executive director.

By 10:32 a.m., the remaining customers had their power restored, Huval said.

“The cause of the outage was a squirrel that placed itself in a bad position,” Huval said.

Read the full story at The Daily Advertiser.

  • Share/Bookmark

Leave a Comment

Previous post:

Next post: