Residents in one Northern Virginia community were left rat-tled after a rodent wiped out their power on Friday.
Over 1,500 residents in the Tysons, Virginia, area experienced the outage at night, according to WUSA-TV.
Peggy Fox, a spokesperson for Dominion Energy in Northern Virginia, revealed the cause of the outage on Twitter: a pesky little, curious critter.
Fox wrote that the outage was due to a rat “that infiltrated a piece of equipment” and caused an outage that left 1,588 customers in the dark.
The outage was resolved after just over an hour, Fox wrote.
Rats!
— Peggy Fox (@PeggyDomEnergy) September 24, 2022
Power Outage in Tysons area tonight was caused by a rat that infiltrated a piece of equipment.
1,588 customers lost power.
All customers restored in 1 hour and 5 minutes.
Thanks to our⚡️line-workers who safely & quickly made those repairs. #Safety1st
Twitter users joked about the outage and the rat’s involvement on Saturday.
The power of splinter
— Antoine Burton (@AntoineBurton10) September 24, 2022
@PieroCastellano @diehimbeertonis Clearly cats are needed to combat this power outage ...
— Rob from Maryland 🇺🇦 🌻 🇮🇷 (@Mammuthus_) September 24, 2022
'Rats!' Tysons power outage caused by rodents https://t.co/JwWOkcRxry
That calls for a slice pic.twitter.com/TFCCeraTrm
— James Bishop (@jimbsez) September 24, 2022
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