Hundreds in Austin still without power almost 24 hours after storms

AUSTIN (KXAN) — After violent storms ripped through Austin, around 30,000 customers reported outages. Austin Energy says about 97 percent of their customers do have lights back on, but the other 3 percent could be out until Wednesday, blaming trees falling into power lines and in some cases, electric poles snapping in half.
“Around the airport around 11 o’clock and midnight we had really high with winds in fact we had a 58 mph wind gust,” Robert Cullick, an Austin En