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If you lost power over the weekend during the storms, you are not alone. However, thousands of people in a Middle Tennessee city were left without power due to another, surprisingly slithering, cause — snakes.
A power outage in Cross Plains, a small city in Robertson County near the Kentucky border, left about 5,000 Cumberland Electric Membership Corporation (CEMC) members without electricity over the weekend, per FOX 17. The cause of the outage was traced back to snakes that had infiltrated the local substation, with CEMC confirming the strange cause in a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday (May 25), adding that the outage has since been repaired.
The power outage occurred on Saturday and affected thousands of residents in the area. Power was restored by crews, and the snakes were relocated. This is not the first time that wildlife has caused power disruptions in the region. Earlier this month, Middle Tennessee Electric reported multiple power outages in the Franklin area due to a snake invasion, FOX 17 reports.
CEMC provides power to several counties in Tennessee, including Cheatham, Montgomery, Robertson, Stewart, and Sumner. The company has not provided further information about the incident or the measures taken to prevent future occurrences.