Nearly 3,000 Entergy New Orleans customers were without power Monday night as rain showers soaked the metro area.

The outage was reported at around 7:40 p.m. and largely concentrated to homes and businesses Uptown.

Entergy New Orleans spokesperson Beau Tidwell said the cause of the outage was still under investigation as of 9 p.m., though it was likely weather related.

"Entergy crews are working as quickly and safely as possible to restore service," Tidwell said.

A band of storms brought moderate to heavy rains to much of southeast Louisiana and the Mississippi Gulf Coast Monday night. Despite a few hours of continuous rains across New Orleans, no street flooding was reported to the city's emergency alert system, NOLA Ready.

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