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A pair of e-mail messages from the city manager report a massive power outage this evening, affecting “just about everything west of Louisiana Avenue.”
The problem has been found to be a squirrel in the Substation. The squirrel started a fire which destroyed a switch that ties two different 69 kV bays together and will have [...]
