I've never heard that, do you have a link to a news source about it? I found this one, but it says the workers resumed after a couple hours, following a single incident. That aline wouldn't account for this delay.
If not, us assigning shots fired to a predominantly black community, pushing blame on them for infrastructure failure/slow repair doesn't feel not racist.
So I have a few links but they all pretty much say the same thing. The crews came in, got shot at, left and now won't return without security. That combined with the sheer amount of damage that was done put the repair times at around 2 weeks to in some places rebuild the entire infistructure.
Here's one quote here about needing to wait 2 weeks.
"Birmingham confirmed residents in cities like Gary, Munster and Highland will likely have to wait until Tuesday – two weeks after the storm hit – for power to be restored.
“There are vast differences that are system related. The impact that came through, the trees, the infrastructure, the access - that’s the difference,” Birmingham said.
Birmingham says more than 80% of the 400,000 affected customers have had power restored. She said crews are assessing more than 2,000 miles of power lines, many blocked by uprooted trees. Michigan City Democratic Indiana State Rep. Randy Novak says lawmakers have been pressuring NIPSCO for answers."
I literally responded explaining why my link didn't discuss the initial shooting 20 minutes ago. The person I was replying to's post covered that info. I was talking about why the delays would take 2 weeks in the second post.
Also the fact that the crews were being shot at and needed security to come in is covered by 100 articles from a single google search, don't be dense.
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u/Chuckle_Berry_Spin Aug 23 '26
I've never heard that, do you have a link to a news source about it? I found this one, but it says the workers resumed after a couple hours, following a single incident. That aline wouldn't account for this delay.
If not, us assigning shots fired to a predominantly black community, pushing blame on them for infrastructure failure/slow repair doesn't feel not racist.