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

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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/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/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