Nearly 8,000 members of Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative lost power late Thursday in southeastern Travis County after scattered thunderstorms rumbled through Central Texas, cutting electricity to neighborhoods east of State Highway 130 and along State Highways 71 and 21. Crews moved in as the storms threatened to fire back up overnight, turning restoration work into a moving target.
According to KVUE, the outages were reported after 10 p.m., and the cooperative’s outage tracker showed nearly 8,000 customers without power in the southeastern part of the county. KVUE reported that the cause of the outage was not immediately known as crews fanned out to assess damage…