Thousands of LUS customers were without power Thursday morning in Lafayette after a shortage involving a squirrel.
An LUS spokesperson says that at around 7:30 am a squirrel shorted out a distribution bus when it got between an insulator and ground.
The shortage resulted in around 3,500 customers without power until about 8:10 a.m. Power has been restored to those affected.
The squirrel, LUS says, did not survive.
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