“Crews found a black snake had come into contact with power lines in the substation, which is believed to have been the cause ...

Before the Wayne County outage-by-snake Sunday night, snakes crawled into electrical areas and shorted out equipment, in two earlier major central North Carolina power outages in a week.

Nearly 10,000 North Carolina residents were left in the dark on Monday, May 5, after a black snake came into contact with ...

One little snake caused a big problem for over 10,000 people in North Carolina this week. A power outage in the Durham area ...

The dangers of snakes usually come from getting too close and chancing a bite. But this week it is the reptiles as aggressors, knocking out power in Durham and Rolesville.

Thousands of North Carolina residents found themselves without power thanks to the work of a wily snake. A spokesperson for ...

A power outage has been restored near downtown Durham after more than 9,900 people were in the dark Monday night before ...

A major Duke Energy power outage cut out power for almost 10,000 customers late Monday evening into early Tuesday morning in ...

Back in 2017, a snake tangled itself in a power line at a Duke substation and caused a power outage which affected about 5,000 customers. At the time, Duke said that snakes cause roughly 100 power ...

a snake, according to reports. North Carolina's Durham area faced a power outage that lasted several hours around 11 p.m. May 5 with a Duke Energy spokesperson telling local media outlets WBTV and ...