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

Before the Wayne County outage-by-snake Sunday night, snakes crawled into electrical areas and shorted out equipment, in two ...

Over the past week, thousands of people in North Carolina have lost power because of issues caused by a snake.

“Crews found a black snake had come into contact with power lines in the substation, which is believed to have been the cause ...

Nearly 10,000 North Carolina residents were left in the dark on Monday, May 5, after a black snake came into contact with ...

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

Duke Energy is unfortunately used to snakes causing trouble for their customers. Back in 2017, a snake tangled itself in a ...

Duke Energy, an electric power and natural gas company, is investigating how the snake got into one of its power substations Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working ...

“Crews found a black snake had come into contact with power lines in the substation, which is believed to have been the cause of the outage,” Duke Energy said in a statement to WSOC-T ...

Thousands of North Carolina residents found themselves without power thanks to the work of a wily snake. A spokesperson for Duke Energy, which provides power to North and South Carolina as well as ...

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.