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Power restored after squirrel causes outage | News | wthitv.com

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTHI) - Power was knocked out on Terre Haute's east side for about an hour Christmas Eve morning.

Rick Burger told News 10 the outage was caused by a squirrel messing with the infrastructure. Duke Energy's outage map showed more than 5,000 customers were affected.

All outages have been restored.

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