Source: ROBESONIAN, 5/10/21

 Blame it on a snake. That’s what about 3,000 customers of the City of Lumberton’s electric power grid could do Monday after the lights came back on. It seems a snake slithered into a substation off U.S. 74 near the farmers market and knocked out power to customers along West Fifth Street, Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and in the Mayfair subdivision, according to Lamar Brayboy, director of the city’s Electric Utilities department. “It’s happened before,” Brayboy said.

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