“Every utility agency in Florida deals with this. It’s a nightmare.' An iguana caused “a large-scale outage” in Lake Worth Beach, Florida, earlier this month – the third iguana-triggered outage in the city this year.
An iguana caused “a large-scale outage” in Lake Worth Beach, Florida earlier this month – the third iguana-triggered outage in the city this year. The outage impacted about 1,400 customers in Lake Worth Beach in Palm County, city spokesman Ben Kerr told CNN. The power was restored within 35 minutes, according to a tweet from the city. LWB Electric Utility responded to the “large scale outage” at the city’s 6th Ave Substation on December 7, said the tweet.
He said the city is actively working on improvement projects to mitigate the iguana outages. Iguanas are extremely adept climbers and have large bodies – a combination which makes the reptile a bigger threat to electrical equipment than birds or squirrels, according to Kerr. “Unlike birds, the tail and sheer size of iguanas” allows them to make a connection between two parts of the electrical system, he said. This was likely the cause of the latest outage, he added.
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