AUSTIN (KXAN) — Power is slowly being restored to customers in southeast Austin Sunday night after thousands were without power because of a failed cable.

Austin Energy tweeted about the outage happening near Bluff Springs just before 8:45 p.m.

At one point, about 6,000 people were without power.

Austin Energy estimated power would be restored by around 9:30 p.m. but later said crews needed more time to restore it safely.

Check Austin Energy’s outage map for updates.