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Large snake causes outage to traffic lights at Northern Virginia intersection

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BALTIMORE - A large snake caused a power outage to the traffic lights at an intersection in Prince William County, Virginia on Monday.

The outage happened in the afternoon at the intersection of Prince William Parkway and Sudley Manor Drive.

An officer and an animal control officer removed the snake unharmed and released it in the area.

According to our media partner WUSA in Washington, D.C., snakes will frequently follow mice, birds and other small prey into substations where they can get into transformers and other important equipment, causing power disruptions and outages in the process.

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