'It's a nightmare:' Iguana causes power outage in Florida town for third time this year

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https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/18/us/florida-iguana-power-outage-trnd/index.html

‘It’s a nightmare:’ Iguana causes power outage in Florida town for third time this year

By Melissa Alonso and Zoe Sottile, CNN

Published 2:06 PM EST, Sun December 18, 2022

CNN — An iguana caused “a large-scale outage” in Lake Worth Beach, Florida earlier this month – the third iguana-triggered outage in the city this year.

The outage impacted about 1,400 customers in Lake Worth Beach in Palm County, city spokesman Ben Kerr told CNN. The power was restored within 35 minutes, according to a tweet from the city.

LWB Electric Utility responded to the “large scale outage” at the city’s 6th Ave Substation on December 7, said the tweet.

“Every utility agency in Florida deals with this. It’s a nightmare,” Kerr said about the animal-caused outages. “It’s happened three times this year because of iguanas” in Lake Worth Beach, he said. “That’s down 50% from last year.”

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