"Austin shits out again: No power, lotsa sweat. Y'all are screwed."

Oh, Just Lovely: Austin Energy screws thousands again with power outages, cause unknown, blame ERCOT maybe? 🤷‍♂️

For the second day in a godforsaken row, over 5,600 Austin Energy suckers—I mean, customers—were sweating their butts off with no power Thursday night. Record-high temps, schmecord-high temps, am I right?

By 9:30 p.m., they'd graciously reduced the blackout count to a measly 2,000. Gee, thanks, Mom. Power restoration estimated at 9:50 p.m., according to their fancy outage map. Don't hold your breath, folks.

Southwest Austin got the short end of the stick, surprise surprise. Blanketed areas near Southwest Parkway, Barton Creek Boulevard, and south of U.S. 290/east of RM 1826. You know, the usual crapshoot.

Cause of the outage? Beats me, pal. Under investigation, apparently. Wednesday's screw-up that ticked off over 7,000 customers was apparently a "local issue," with no relation to ERCOT's statewide electric grid. Sure, blame the little guys.

Austin Energy's spokesperson couldn't be bothered to respond immediately. Typical.

Meanwhile, temps hit a whopping 107 freaking degrees on Thursday, smashing records at Austin Camp Mabry, according to the weather geniuses at National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio. Wednesday was even worse at 109 degrees. Might as well live on the sun.