Grammy award-winning rapper Freddie Gibbs shouts out Keith Lee, Trae tha Truth, Pastor Eric Boone and Gary, Indiana, mayor Eddie Melton for supporting the city as thousands of residents went without power for two weeks. According to The Northern Indiana Public Service Company, electricity is now back on for 99% of residents in the state.
As of Monday, over 10,000 northwest Indiana customers still do not have power more than two weeks after powerful storms hit the region. The outages have affected hundreds of thousands of people, particularly in the cities of Gary, Portage and Munster. Ben Bradley, a reporter for NewsNation local affiliate WGN in Chicago, joins "NewsNation Live" with the latest. Get a fast-paced look at the latest from the border to Main Street to the White House on "NewsNation Live" with Nichole Berlie. Weekdays starting at 12p/11C. NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.
A derecho sent 99-mph winds through Gary on Aug. 11, cutting power to more than 300,000 residents in the area.
Nearly 4,000 customers in the Gary area remained without electricity almost two weeks after an intense storm. The utility has pledged to restore power by Tuesday.
A round of storms impacted the region on Aug. 11
GARY, Ind. — Gary remains in the dark for the 11th day after powerful storms went through Northwest Indiana, leaving thousands of residents without power. Nearly 21,000 Gary NIPSCO customers remain without power as of Friday afternoon out of a total of 43,329 across Northwest Indiana. It was a scary day for Gary resident Shumaine [...]
More than 75,000 customers in northwest Indiana remained without electricity a full week after storms carrying 99-mph winds leveled trees and killed seven people, with the local utility warning that full restoration in hard-hit Gary may not come until August 25. The storms tore through the region beginning August 11, initially knocking out power to […] The post Northwest Indiana residents endure a week without power after deadly storms — and the utility says full restoration is still days away appeared first on American Almanac .
More than 75,000 customers in northwest Indiana remained without electricity a full week after storms carrying 99-mph winds leveled trees and killed seven people, with the local utility warning that full restoration in hard-hit Gary may not come until August 25. The storms tore through the region beginning August 11, initially knocking out power to roughly 300,000 customers across northwest Indiana. By late afternoon on Wednesday, August 17, that number had dropped to about 75,000, but for the families still sitting in the dark, the progress felt painfully slow. More than 20,000 of those customers were in Gary alone, a city where approximately 300 utility poles and 44 power transmission poles need repair or replacement, the Associated…Open
Tens of thousands of people in northwest Indiana are entering a second week without power after a deadly storm toppled trees and power lines.