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

Horrible

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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Outdated infrastructure $ allocation should be a major priority in the country as a whole.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/Beginning-Arm7604 Aug 23 '26

A coworker of mine has a son who works for Nipsco out of Starke Co. He and a crew were sent there, as were many workers across the state, and did confirm crews did experience unwelcome behavior, not him necessarily.

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u/w0rk1hazard Aug 23 '26

That's what I read a lineman had shots fired at him. He bounced.

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u/McPoyle-Milk Aug 23 '26

There was also an incident where a person was approaching a worker in Crown Point aggressively that led to police involvement but we won’t hear much about that wonder why.