Some 2,400 5,400 customers in Northwest D.C. are experiencing power outages, according to Pepco’s service alert map. That may have something to do with the cable problems that people are reporting on Twitter. U Street Girl says that the electricity is out south of U Street NW but not north of U Street, which fits my experience and some other reports, and that soccer hooligans are streaming out of U Street bars in search of a working World Cup broadcast.

UPDATE: The number of affected customers spiked by 3,000 just after I posted the story. I also updated the outage map screenshot, which is now a scarier shade of red, and changed “people” to “customers” throughout for clarity.

MORE: Looks like a fire which started around 5 p.m. inside an electrical manhole on the 1300 block of 6th Street NW was to blame for the outage. Electricity in the affected area should be completely back to full strength.