Commuters taking the Metro-North Railroad were in for a shock yesterday when they realized that all the trains were running late because of one thing: a squirrel.
All trains running on the Metro-North railways were shut down yesterday after a squirrel walking on the power lines caused an electrical surge, taking down the power for the whole railway. According to a spokeswoman from Metro-North Railways the squirrel had apparently been electrocuted, causing a power surge that weakened one of the overhead brackets on the railway. This caused one of the electrical wires to dangle, where it then became snagged on one of the trains passing beneath it, ripping the whole cluster of electrical lines down. This caused a massive power failure to the train systems.
Due to the power failure, the trains that usually carry the 47,000 commuters to and from Manhattan were stopped dead, leaving many a person angry and confused as to what had happened to their Monday afternoon transportation.
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You're on the right track with this lead, but I'd like to see you tighten -- and perhaps brighten -- it up a bit. Perhaps you could combine your first and second sentences (keeping the squirrel part at the end, of course).
ReplyDeleteNote that it's a squirrel, not squirrels. Also, I asked to to attribute the squirrel electrocution info to the Metro-North spokeswoman.
Fact error: the power outage was Monday afternoon, not Tuesday morning. Please reread the fact sheet and try again.
0/15 - fact error, please revise
Ah yes, this works much better!
ReplyDelete0+10=10/15
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