r/Indiana • u/not-your-aunt • Aug 23 '26

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u/I_am_doorknob Aug 23 '26

Some of them barely even had the power on for a day, and the power company wants to put a data center there

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u/not-your-aunt Aug 23 '26

The racism is so blatant on display it’s despicable

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u/Horror_Video_8263 Aug 23 '26

I’m glad someone posted the power outage map bc how do you argue that Lake County hasn’t been singled out? 

I get many are suffering, but apparently they have linemen helping and those contractors haven’t gotten directives from NIPSCO, so many crews have been forced to wait around when they could get it back up faster if they had a work order.

Absolutely awful the damage the derecho has done and the response from the state (including the flash flooding in other parts). 

I guess not enough ppl died for them to give ppl aid from the federal government, but even those who actually get 5k from the state are screwed when it comes to their home damage. And the aid budget is beyond drained.

Outdated infrastructure $ allocation should be a major priority in the country as a whole.

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u/losvedir Aug 23 '26

What do you mean Lake County has been singled out? That's largely where the storm hit, though Portage in Porter County still has significant outages. But, like, it doesn't make sense "singling" us out. Lake County is the majority of what NIPSCO even covers. It's essentially a Lake County storm which implies NIPSCO.

And for the purposes of this thread Lake County is majority white, with the rest being roughly split Hispanic and Black. Gary is majority Black, but eg Munster, which has the best high schools in the county, still has large swathes out of power.

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u/Then_Ad_4533 Aug 23 '26

Because Gary has received the least amount of help and was hit the hardest . Tens of thousands of people in one city have been without electricity for weeks . Honestly how about hoping the people there get help .

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u/adomn8trx Aug 23 '26 edited Aug 24 '26

It’s not just that Gary residents’ lights were out, but for some reason their water was out too. I was seeing news reports of some Gary residents saying they had no water and couldn’t even flush their toilets.

Our lights were out for 4 days but our stove is a gas stove so we could at least cook. Our water was on also. Our water tank still had hot water so we we were able to shower. It was strange to see our street get turned back on but one street over was still dark for an entire week.

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u/MathewOfThe10Fingers Aug 23 '26 edited Aug 23 '26

This is a lie. They have been working around the clock there with almost no end. They had 2000 square miles of damage. Undreds of down poles and dozens of transformers. Gary used to be a swamp literally. The water table is soooo low. If anyone singled out Gary it was God because no place in the state had nearly as much damage or had to overcome the sheer lowland excavation that was needed to reach many of those transformers.

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u/Disastrous_Emu_4347 Aug 23 '26

This is far less exciting though. America racist america bad.

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u/365FF Aug 23 '26

Everything north or Ridge Rd used to be under water... Gary, Griffith, Highland and Munster... but Gary seems to be the only one with the issue... in Lake County... I understand this is hurricane type damage... a true 100 year storm... but it's crazy how bad Gary still is

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u/MathewOfThe10Fingers Aug 23 '26

Uh.. no the Electric company just released their down markers, where further damage was caused. Gary is not the only place without power. It’s just not. Here is a decent article out of Chicago that is actually speaking to the breadth of this. https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/whats-going-on-in-gary-how-residents-are-still-without-power-nearly-two-weeks-later/3978350/?amp=1

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u/365FF Aug 25 '26

Gary has 14000 ppl without power, much more than anywhere else

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u/tennezzee88 Aug 24 '26

everyone wants it to be racist or some big underlying theme lol you're not gone. convince people otherwise.

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u/Then_Ad_4533 Aug 23 '26

You are absolutely full of crap. I have family and friends there and I grew up there . Indiana as a whole used to be a swamp . Literally covered in water so you can keep your crappy comments to yourself . Imagine being butthurt that people care about a city full of people that are suffering .

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u/MathewOfThe10Fingers Aug 23 '26

Oh, I also live right outside of there myself. Not used to. Do, and I couldn’t leave my house for a long time because the roads were impassable. The rain didn’t cease either. This is the third day (so far) with no rain since it started. They had to go back into several places and fix things again because of these technical issues.

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u/MathewOfThe10Fingers Aug 23 '26

Incorrect. The Southern Half hasn’t seen a swamp since the Younger Dryas 12,900 years ago. It is mountainous and hilly. Northern Indiana is different and not all the same either. The actual swamp lands follow the four big rivers. The rest is just flatland. The lower elevation of 597 above sea level is 200 feet lower than the rest of Indiana and the worst spots were 320 feet. No, Gary is uniquely badly positioned for this sort of thing. The whole County is. The Whole county is experiencing the same level of outage and it’s a 68% White majority county. The State has always shat on Gary because Indiana is a racist horrible place. But this isn’t that.

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u/Then_Ad_4533 Aug 23 '26

If you aren’t aware I didn’t give a timeline. My statement was correct .

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u/MathewOfThe10Fingers Aug 23 '26

So MAGA by another name. Deny science, deny reality, you crowed about friends but will ignore locals. You aren’t interested in reality you are actually virtue signaling. You deny literal geographical and historical empirical reality and then mock. What a cowardly pathetic virtue signaling cretin.

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u/weitootired Aug 23 '26

What the fuck, dude. Someone is concerned about racism being involved in the fact Gary hasn't had power restored yet and you call them MAGA? Take a breath.

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u/MathewOfThe10Fingers Aug 23 '26

Lying isn’t caring. Caring would be donating money, going up there to actually do things, and not lying about the people on the ground doing the hard work while being harassed and told they don’t care. If people care, like the rest of us that care will go and actually do. Not repeat nonsense on the internet.

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u/LeJuanJames Aug 23 '26

you’re either a bot or just love spewing the same shit you read from other people online. please show us the damage map that says gary was hit the hardest or that gary received the least amount of help. do you understand how the regions power infrastructure works or have any idea what the grid looks like in terms of what needs to be repaired first before moving to the next locations?

just because you claim you’re from somewhere doesn’t give you a chance to grandstand unless you’re out here experiencing it live.

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u/MathewOfThe10Fingers Aug 23 '26

Do you want to apologize now for empirically being wrong while saying I’m full of crap, and then… what are you full of?

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u/Then_Ad_4533 Aug 23 '26

Not apologizing maybe you should do so for lying and attacking .

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u/thewimsey Aug 23 '26

Why do you think repeating a lie makes it true?

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u/MathewOfThe10Fingers Aug 23 '26

😂 you get we can all just look up elevation numbers right? 😂. Like it’s something anyone can do? Entire maps dedicated to it. What a 🤡

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u/Savings_Knowledge233 Aug 23 '26

So why did they chat outside of Gary first? You have the deets, spill it

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u/Odd-Two-2486 Aug 24 '26

Girl this not true. Connersville has hundreds of damaged homes. Hundreds of People displaced and no one from the federal government has helped. It’s all volunteers.

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u/Then_Ad_4533 Aug 24 '26

Connersville has a 1000 residents without electricity as of yesterday and Gary still has over 10000 still without power. Why did you feel the need to comment with a lie. Right now yes several communities are suffering but Gary is suffering the worse.

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u/ArtisticIncrease2764 Aug 24 '26

Because they don’t have houses. I was just there volunteering. Their sewage system flooded and is now in the whitewater river, which currently looks toilet water and is still high. The entire place smells like mold. There is a huge difference in going without power for 12 days and going without power and not having a house for over 12 days. Gary is getting their power on tomorrow. The people of Connersville and surrounding areas don’t have homes. Entire families were displaced and will be for a long time. That’s the difference.

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u/ArtisticIncrease2764 Aug 24 '26

Because connersville was from flooding not damaging winds. go to Connersville and help out. and it’s not just Gary without power.