Snake Causes Power Outage In Clarksville

Power has been restored to about 12,000 people after a snake slithered into a Clarksville Department of Electricity substation and caused the outage.

The Leaf-Chronicle reported that electric crews found a snake had made contact with electrical equipment inside the primary substation, which caused a system protection device to trip and disconnect power to around 5:30 Sunday morning.

Service was restored to all customers by 8 a.m.

No mention was made about what species of snake caused the outage or if the snake survived the encounter.