Union City, Tenn.–It may sound like the plot of a cheap movie, but it’s not.
About 3,000 Union City Energy Authority customers were in the dark Thursday night due to snakes shorting out high voltage equipment at the Reelfoot Avenue Substation.
Union City Energy Authority spokesman Jerry Bailey said the outage happened about 9:30 p.m. and UCEA customers were off approximately 30 minutes. UCEA rerouted the power to all the customers affected by the outage to restore service as soon as possible. The snakes were removed from the high voltage equipment and the transformer substation was place back in service about 10:30 PM.
Due to the very high volume of calls received due to the outage customers may have experienced unanswered calls during that time.
Union City Energy regrets the inconvenience to its customers caused by the outage.
Photo by Union City Energy Authority.
