“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.

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

and CBS17 that a power outage occurred on Monday, May 5, due to a black snake that came into contact with equipment at a substation. The outage began around 11 p.m., when the serpent came in ...

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

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.

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

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 ...