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Turkey causes power outage

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By Gordon Severson - email

SHEBOYGAN (WKOW)-- Weeks before Thanksgiving a wild turkey causes hundreds homes to lose power.

The outage was caused when a turkey flew into a power line in Sheboygan County on Saturday morning. The outage effected 1,500 people in the area.

We Energies spokeswoman Cathy Schulze says the outage happened at 8 a.m. Saturday. Power was restored within an hour to all but a handful of homes.

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