DURHAM, N.C. — Last week, two separate incidents where a snake snuck into a Duke Energy substation caused power outages in ...

In three instances since Monday, May 5, a snake came into contact with equipment in a substation, Duke Energy spokesperson ...

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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.