Power back on for nearly 3,500 Mountain View Electric customers

ELLICOTT, Colo. (KRDO) -

UPDATE: The power is back on for the nearly 3,500 Mountain View Electric Association customers who lost power around 6:30 Thursday morning.

Power was restored more than an hour sooner than crews had originally estimated.

Officials with Mountain View Electric Association are working to find out what caused the outage.

ORIGINAL: Nearly 3,500 Mountain View Electric Association customers were without power near Ellicott Thursday morning.

According to the Mountain View Electric Association outage map, the outage started just after 6:30 Thursday morning. Power was expected to be back on around 9:30 a.m.

Ellicott 22 schools were on a two-hour delay because of the outage.

It's not clear what caused it.