Power lines and a streetlight by South Harbor blend into the darkness of night around 2:30 a.m. on Sept. 20 after a blue heron caused a power outage in the area.
Like Icarus flying too close to the sun, a blue heron got too close to a power source near South Harbor last Friday morning - causing a power outage in the darkest hours of the night.
The encounter with the power lines around 1:20 a.m. cost the waterfowl its life and part of Petersburg its power until PMPL crew brought the lights back on by 3:00 a.m.
"Unfortunately, in the middle of the night ... a large blue heron made contact with our primary power in the area of South Harbor and ... put the core part of Petersburg out of power for a while," Utility Director Karl Hagerman told the Pilot that...
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