Image: A raccoon was to blame for the loss of power to almost 40,000 homes. Photograph: Luke Massey/Rex Features
theguardian.com - May 11th 2016 - Nicky Woolf
Nearly 40,000 homes were without power on Wednesday morning after a raccoon broke into a substation in Seattle, Washington, and single-pawedly brought down the electric grid in a dozen suburbs.
The creature caused 13 separate system outages during its brief but energetic visit.
Seattle Power and Light tweeted that “an animal entered one of our substations” in the early hours of the morning, causing a power outage that stretched across the suburbs from Golden Gardens Park to Queen Anne, north of the city.
Image: A raccoon was to blame for the loss of power to almost 40,000 homes. Photograph: Luke Massey/Rex Features 
