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Trash panda puts out the lights in Ballard
Redditors provide eye witness reports:
My apartment overlooks Magnolia and Ballard from North Queen Anne. Was actually looking out the window when I saw a huge flash and then everything in Ballard went dark. Half of Magnolia did too. My lights flickered and the internet went out immediately
I live by the Substation on 8th Ave NW and 3rd. I was watching TV, lights went out, then I heard an explosion. I decided to wak to the Substation. My FB post on it:
"I walked toward the Substation, ran into some drunk Fremont regulars, they said that it wasn't the Substation, because they thought it was further away, just as a friend called me and said that he saw the flash of light in the general direction of the Substation.
Everyone on twitter was talking about it, and tons of FB posts but nobody knew what caused it.
I figured that tons of people would be at the Substation,if that had been what it was. So almost turned around.
I saw some flashing small lights at the Substation, as I got closer realized it was too workers with flashlights. I figured they were looking for secondary damage caused by wherever exploded somewhere else. I decided to see if I could ask them what happened.
As I got closer I saw that they had a raccoon between them that was chasing after them in a slow staggering manner. The two guys were doing the keep away maneuver, where the farther guy would make the raccoon head towards him until he was the near guy, then repeat.
I have only seen a raccoon a handful of times, and always running away from people.
I yelled through the fence "is it normal for one to chase after you like that?"
One guy said "that guy is dazed", I said "he is?". They said "he is who knocked out the power". Around that time it stopped coming after them, and they let him wonder off.
It's weird to me that only two people would respond to the power outage's source, and they were inside the enclosed fence, so seemed like authorities on the matter.
My friend pointed out that I may have just witnessed a superhero origin story, if you see a raccoon in the Fremont / Ballad area, assume that it has super powers."
"I walked toward the Substation, ran into some drunk Fremont regulars, they said that it wasn't the Substation, because they thought it was further away, just as a friend called me and said that he saw the flash of light in the general direction of the Substation.
Everyone on twitter was talking about it, and tons of FB posts but nobody knew what caused it.
I figured that tons of people would be at the Substation,if that had been what it was. So almost turned around.
I saw some flashing small lights at the Substation, as I got closer realized it was too workers with flashlights. I figured they were looking for secondary damage caused by wherever exploded somewhere else. I decided to see if I could ask them what happened.
As I got closer I saw that they had a raccoon between them that was chasing after them in a slow staggering manner. The two guys were doing the keep away maneuver, where the farther guy would make the raccoon head towards him until he was the near guy, then repeat.
I have only seen a raccoon a handful of times, and always running away from people.
I yelled through the fence "is it normal for one to chase after you like that?"
One guy said "that guy is dazed", I said "he is?". They said "he is who knocked out the power". Around that time it stopped coming after them, and they let him wonder off.
It's weird to me that only two people would respond to the power outage's source, and they were inside the enclosed fence, so seemed like authorities on the matter.
My friend pointed out that I may have just witnessed a superhero origin story, if you see a raccoon in the Fremont / Ballad area, assume that it has super powers."
