the net

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Power is back on for nearly 39,000 Seattle City Light customers after a raccoon got into an electrical substation and knocked out power.

the cities came up around us and we adapted. isn’t that what you do? isn’t that how you build cities? if we had not changed we would have all died. you tell stories about the ones that didn’t change. you lament your shortsightedness – how could we not have known? how did we kill the last one? how could we be so foolish? you mourn the ones that didn’t change.

Jeffrey Pierce, who lives in Fremont, said he woke up to the sound of an explosion. He walked to a nearby power substation and saw crews walking around inside the fence.

we heard it too. we are not all together in a net like you, but we heard it. we are not clever or tall like you but we have ears and we heard it. we were not asleep.

“I realized there were two workers in hard hats with flashlights with a raccoon between them,” said Pierce. “They were like, ‘This guy is really dazed,’ and I was like, ‘He is?’ And they said, ‘Yes, he’s the one that knocked out all the power,’ and I was amazed.”

it was not him. the net killed the one who touched it. it was not him and he was afraid. he had heard it and he did not know about the net, none of us know about the net, but the one who touched it is dead. we have noses and we know the one who touched the net is dead.

Seattle City Light spokesman Scott Thomson later told KIRO 7 that the raccoon responsible for the outage was electrocuted and was not the same one whom neighbors saw.

the ones who tend the net know it too. the one who touched the net is dead. we adapt and you hate us. we adapt and you keep all the extra food for yourselves. you let it rot in boxes and hunt us when we try to eat it. the one who touched the net did not adapt enough and now the one who touched the net is dead. that is the choice you have left us with: be hated or die. we are not clever like you and we cannot choose. we do not know about the net.

“Everything was completely dark, completely still,” said Chansanchai. “I looked outside and I realized all the lights were out.”

when the one who touched the net touched the net it broke apart and there was darkness. the one and the net both broke apart. we will adapt to the broken net. we adapt and you hate us but if we do not adapt we will become a fond memory.

Seattle City Light got electricity restored to all customers by about 5:30 a.m.

we do not know about the net.