Zombie Alert Confuses Residents and City Officials

Governing: A power outage in a South Florida city sparked an alert that left residents wondering if they had awakened to the end of the world.

"Power outage and zombie alert for the residents of Lake Worth and Terminus," the alert read. "There are now far less than 7,380 customers involved due to extreme zombie activity."

The alert was sent at 1:45 a.m. Sunday and referenced the fictional town threatened by zombies in AMC's television series, "The Walking Dead."

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