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A snake slithered into a switch box outside a New York hospital, where it met its maker and caused a 10-hour power outage, AP reports with information from Poughkeepsie Journal.
Officials at Vassar Brothers Hospital in Poughkeepsie say backup generators kicked on Tuesday afternoon when a common-variety snake got into the switch box and disrupted the hospital’s main power supply. Workers found the dead snake inside the box.
Hospital officials say there were no patient care disruptions caused by the outage, which lasted from 3 pm Tuesday to 1 am Wednesday. Some emergency room cases had to be diverted to other hospitals.
While squirrels and other small animals have been known to get into electrical equipment and cause outages, a utility spokesperson says it’s the first time he’s heard of a snake doing it.