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At about 5:35 pm, in Niigata a snake caused a black out in about 1,190 locations for as long as 2 hours in some places. The snake died of electrocution related injuries.
A representative from the Tohoku Electric Company commented that the snake, which had worked its way into a plastic safety covering on the wires [...]

Around 2:55 pm on June 30th, trains in Ibaraki were halted for nearly two hours.　Some trains were as much as an hour and forty-five minutes late affecting approximately 2,600 communters.
The reason? Snakes. A 1 meter long dead snake was found in the overhead wiring. In the same station another snake caused a 2 hour blackout.
A [...]