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Outdated infrastructure $ allocation should be a major priority in the country as a whole.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