By Associated Press - Monday, May 26, 2014

ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) - Bird nests in an electrical substation caused a power outage that affected about 4,000 people in the Aberdeen area.

NorthWesternEnergy spokesman Tom Glanzer tells the American News (https://bit.ly/TMXRtd ) that power was out for about 40 minutes starting about 6:30 a.m. Monday.

The outage impacted the south side of Aberdeen as well as people in Warner, Stratford, Mellette and Ashton.

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Information from: Aberdeen American News, https://www.aberdeennews.com

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