A stray cat looking for a warm place to stay last week found itself in an electrical substation. while it was there it snuggled up to a warm transformer. When it did this the cat touched a live circuit which caused a short that instantly killed the cat. But thats not all. When the cat died it blew out nine electrical feeder lines which caused 12,000 homes and businesses to go without power for over 3 hours.
At first I actually thought this was pretty funny that a cat could cause 12,000 properties to loose power. But I ended up realizing that this was pretty sad for both the cat and the residents effected by this outage. It is obviously sad for the cat because it died. But it also sucks for the people of Idaho that must have had very cold houses for a few hours during the night
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