More than 3,300 NorthWestern Energy customers in Aberdeen were without power for about an hour Wednesday. The culprit? A bird dropped a 3-foot-long garter snake into a substation, according to ...

ABERDEEN — An explosion at a Bonneville Power Administration substation in Aberdeen Saturday evening temporarily knocked out power to about 1,000 homes. BPA spokesman Mike Hansen in Portland ...

“More than 3,300 NorthWestern customers in Aberdeen, S.D. lost power for an hour Wednesday when a bird dropped a 3-foot-long garter snake into a substation,” the company wrote in a Facebook post.

More than 3,300 NorthWestern Energy customers in Aberdeen were without power for about an hour Wednesday. The culprit? A bird dropped a 3-foot-long garter snake into a substation, according to ...