Topic: NEWS english - on August 27, 2004 at 11:56:00 AM CEST
Squirrel Blamed for Outage, Traffic Jam
A hungry squirrel has been blamed for a power outage that snarled rush-hour traffic in this city north of Portland, Ore.
Electricity was cut for about an hour Wednesday morning to about 5,145 residential and business customers after the rodent caused a short circuit at a substation.
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