Source: Mandy Mitchell, WRAL, 8/29/19

 Russ Vollmer remembers the day vividly. He had a 1,500 pound shipment of broccoli in the cooler set for delivery the next day. He always thought the cooler was the safest place for a crop. That was until a bird landed on a local transformer and somehow caused a power outage. Vollmer opened his warm cooler the next morning to find his crop ruined. The broccoli was brown.

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