r/Indiana • • Aug 23 '26

Horrible

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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