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Birds are to blame for a Friday evening power outage in College Station.
College Station Utilities crews in the field reported birds got into a lightning arrester on a feeder line out of the Greens Prairie substation.
1534 customers were affected by the outage, which was reported at 6:31 p.m. and ended at 7:51 p.m.
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