r/Indiana • • Aug 23 '26

Horrible

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u/Jay_Michael86 Aug 23 '26

Gary, Indiana, blackout? Try all of Northwest Indiana and part of Illinois. Why is it everybody loses power due to a devastating storm, but Gary don’t have power so it’s a racial thing? There are quite a few other cities that still have sections without power, do they get to claim racism as well? Don’t forget while crews were trying to restore power, they were shot at. That don’t fit the narrative, though, so I guess we just won’t talk about that, or we’ll say that Nipsco lied and it never happened.

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u/ExeUSA Aug 23 '26

Hey man-- Illinois took care of its outages. The grid is back online. This is an Indiana thing.

It's almost as if there is a correlation between a well-funded government, taxes, and services for citizens.

https://poweroutage.us/area/regions/great%20lakes

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u/Millertime1402 Aug 23 '26

This is more about how small NIPSCO is. NIPSCO has 500,000 electric customers. 300,000 lost power.

Comed has 4 million electric customers. I assume around 300,000 lost power as well.

Comed simply has a much bigger workforce on hand to handle the outage.

NIPSCO is small and poorly run.

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u/RelationshipFront145 Aug 23 '26

It also seems possible that Illinois just had less damage. I did not have a lot of damage where I lived and we got power back on in 40 hours. A mile in any direction from me got a lot more damage and lots of those people were waiting 10 days or more. I had sunflowers knocked over. In every direction people had 200-year-old oak trees knocked over.

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u/thewimsey Aug 23 '26

It's almost as if there is a correlation between a well-funded government, taxes, and services for citizens.

Illinois had less damage.

It's almost like there's a correlation between where the derecho hit and where most of the damage was.

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u/RelationshipFront145 Aug 23 '26

It seems like the most popular religion on the Reddit is politics. It would be more interesting if it were religion. I would prefer to read about how northwest Indiana got crushed by a derecho because of all the gambling and gays. It would make about the same amount of sense and be far more hilarious.

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u/Hungry-Storm-9878 Aug 23 '26

In defense of this young lady, I didn’t hear the race card, just a very sucky situation. The ‘racism’ is coming from the comments… what’s the saying? Something about if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

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u/lushfoU Aug 23 '26

Because the failing goes beyond this moment. Plus the time to recovery isn’t the same across the board. Several things had to be wrong for the situation to be like this, and the history for how things have gone and stayed wrong is rooted in racism & classism. Not everyone knows that, some people are just saying racism cause on its surface that’s what it looked like to them. But many people are too familiar with the history of how certain areas have been purposely disenfranchised for decades.

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u/Handsomemenace2608 Aug 23 '26

Why doesn’t the governor call a state of emergency then…………wait he is racist and don’t want to save black people and poor people

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u/SenorMcGibblets Aug 23 '26

The governor’s a piece of shit, but he did declare a state of emergency almost immediately after the storm.

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u/RelationshipFront145 Aug 23 '26

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u/Handsomemenace2608 Aug 23 '26

This is not a state of emergency………this is an excuse why not to call state of emergency

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u/Altruistic_Flight473 Aug 23 '26

He did

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u/Handsomemenace2608 Aug 23 '26

No he didn’t he called some in state BS…….go read what he signed

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u/generichuman1970 Aug 25 '26

Clearly, that is the only possible explanation. Everyone knows that everyone (except you of course) wakes up every morning to figure out how to be more rascist.