The snake cut off the electricity of 16,000 houses.

Washington. In America, a snake cut off the electricity of 16,000 homes. The incident came to light in the US city of Austin when a snake slithered into a substation and came in contact with equipment. The outage started at 1 pm on May 16, affecting around 16,000 customers, according to reports. The incident happened when a snake entered a substation and came in contact with an electrified circuit, causing a power failure.
At the same time, Austin Energy said in its tweet that interference of wildlife can cause power failure. Today a snake crawled into one of our substations and came in contact with an electrified circuit which stopped the flow of electricity. Power was later restored to all affected customers by 2 p.m. An Austin Energy spokeswoman said the company is now in the process of installing low-voltage electric snake fencing around substations to keep the crawling reptiles out. In a similar incident last year, about 10,000 homes in Japan lost power when a snake fell into an electrical substation.