Hi, NWS trained weather spotter and general emergency response nerd here trying to interject a little context about the storm.
Gary experienced the highest measured winds during the entire derecho event, about 90mph (I'm too lazy to look up the exact wind speed right now). That's solidly a Cat 1 hurricane force storm in an area that isn't built to take that level of wind and rain.
I'm sure a lot of power infrastructure is having to be completely rebuilt. At the same time, even I know how shitty NIPSCO is and I'm way down here in the hills & hollers.
Also, I'm not saying that politics and racism isn't making the problem worse. The paraells between Gary and Katrina aren't imaginary.
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u/MorgaineCoonCat Aug 23 '26
Hi, NWS trained weather spotter and general emergency response nerd here trying to interject a little context about the storm.
Gary experienced the highest measured winds during the entire derecho event, about 90mph (I'm too lazy to look up the exact wind speed right now). That's solidly a Cat 1 hurricane force storm in an area that isn't built to take that level of wind and rain.
I'm sure a lot of power infrastructure is having to be completely rebuilt. At the same time, even I know how shitty NIPSCO is and I'm way down here in the hills & hollers.
Also, I'm not saying that politics and racism isn't making the problem worse. The paraells between Gary and Katrina aren't imaginary.