Thousands without power in Lexington

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ)- Thousands of Central Kentuckians were in the dark Wednesday night.

KU says as of 11:15, more than 4,000 Fayette County customers were without power. And close to 800 customers in Scott County also had no electricity.

No word yet from KU if the heavy rain or winds in the Lexington metro area caused the outages. Click here for outage updates.