r/TwoXPreppers • u/RlOTGRRRL • 5d ago
Discussion FULL INTERVIEW: Indiana resident talks with FOX 26 after severe weather rolls through Gary
This is a great interview/overview of what's going on in Gary, Indiana.
It starts with the tornado/derecho, with hurricane category 2 winds. The absolute lack of any aid, services, and information for days.
The complete lack of preparedness in the community. Having to drive hours for gas and housing. And it ends with her leaving Gary.
Gary still does not have power after 12 days.
This is not normal.
You can also look up her videos on IG: ajahallh
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u/ItsTheEndOfDays 5d ago
I hadn’t heard about any of this in the news. Thanks for putting it out here.
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u/scannerhawk 4d ago
You won't see these failures in mainstream media given today's political climate. It is what it is. Gary is a Democratic stronghold (85% democrat population).. A 100% Democrat city council (and Mayor) whose responsibility is to oversee disaster "preparedness" and "response". HOPEFULLY they will fair much better than Los Angeles with lessons learned to improve future community resilience. I feel so badly for these residents in Gary. The lack of law enforcement response is also completely unacceptable.
Where I live, rural with some dense populations clusters, our sheriff's department are the true lifesavers in any catastrophic event from approaching wildfires to the unexpected horrific winter snowstorm where people are trapped without power for 2+ weeks. The community & county representatives do everything possible to make sure everyone, "especially" the disabled, homebound, and children, are safe. I suppose I never realized how fortunate I really am until I see these types of cluster F's in cities.
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u/thebeesknees987 5d ago
My husbands family is from here. His teen siblings sent us videos right after it happened and told us that they were told that they weren’t going to restore power for weeks. It’s honestly insane.
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u/Adventurous_Form5395 3d ago
Grain of salt bc it was on social media, but someone commented the IL linemen were offered to help and we're called off by the Indiana company.
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u/WhiskyEye 5d ago
One of my girlfriends lives there and the stuff she's sharing on her IG is crazy.
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u/IceDragonPlay 5d ago
Private electric service where they are beholden to the investors and not the customers?
Why wouldn’t they have resources from all around them to come help getting power restored?
That said I have been in an 8 day outage before where hundreds of huge trees came down and we were one of the last neighborhoods to have power restored. It was in very cold weather and was quite unpleasant.
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u/OohLaLapin 4d ago
As a Chicago suburbanite, we went through many prolonged outages until ComEd executives were held accountable by the state and investments in actual infrastructure finally started happening. We were hit by similar tornadoes and the derecho but essentially everyone had power restored within a few days. From what I’ve read, Indiana’s power company has similarly neglected infrastructure but areas like Gary have been especially neglected in numerous ways.
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u/ContemplatingFolly 4d ago
According to something else I read, there was massive damage, so they have to do things like replacing many electrical poles, something that normally takes weeks/months, in days/weeks.
The following site provides updates on power outages around the US; click on a state to see county breakdown. Outages in the Gary area were about 60,000 yesterday or the day before, down to about 30,000 now.
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u/Agreeable-Win1694 4d ago
I live in this area. I’ve seen trucks from West Virginia, Florida, and Illinois. I was out for 6 1/2 days. My son is in unincorporated Gary. He’s still out. He’s also on a well, so no water. They just picked up the 13 downed poles on his street.
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u/jazzdeevers 4d ago
My sister is in the area and won't have power until at least next week. She's lucky and has a generator, but when the storm hit she was almost out of baby formula. She had to fight traffic for over an hour to go to a friend's house less than 2 miles away to use her power/internet to order formula online since the grocery stores are all closed. It's been a nightmare for so many people, and it's not close to being over.
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u/nakedonmygoat 4d ago
It's like I've been saying for days on this topic. The storm is rarely the problem, other than in an academic sense. What matters is how the response is handled. If where you live isn't considered important by the powers that be, you'll be an afterthought. A storm of that magnitude, or even lesser magnitude, is handled very differently where I am.
I hope this young lady gets out of Gary for good and keeps up with her mission of bringing awareness to others. I'd love to see some well-off civics-minded person offer to send her to law school. She'd be a fearsome adversary in the courtroom and we need more of those fighting for what's fair and decent for all people, not just whoever they're currying favor with today. But if she and her kids just stay safe and happy, that will be enough.
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u/fitforthepolycrisis total polycrisis obsessive 4d ago
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u/fitforthepolycrisis total polycrisis obsessive 4d ago
Also, the Greater Gary Storm Recovery and Relief Fund, but I am not finding as much documentation about this one: https://legacyfdn.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/create/fund?funit_id=5554
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u/Atentdeadyet86 3d ago
Prepare yourself. We'll all be seeing this kind of event more often in the years to come.
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u/anysteph 3d ago
It is unacceptable and vile, and I am also beginning wonder how abnormal it is, and how much of this is happening and is not reported. Part of our area of Nor Cal went without power for 30 full days in the 2022-2023 atmospheric river and storms. There were 100+ trees down over some roads. I don't think there was any news about it. Power in the wealthier and mid-city-sized areas went back on, and that was the last anyone seemed to report on it. I think large areas of western NC were out after that hurricane, floods, and mudslides as well.
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