30,000 Northern Indiana Customers Remain Without Power for 11 Days as Gary Waits Until Tuesday
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Updated · The New York Times · Aug 22
30,000 Northern Indiana Customers Remain Without Power for 11 Days as Gary Waits Until Tuesday
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Aug 22
Summary
About 30,000 customers across northern Indiana were still without electricity Saturday evening, with outages stretching into an 11th day after severe storms.
Northern Indiana Public Service Co. said Gary and nearby Portage would be the last areas restored, potentially not regaining power until the end of Tuesday.
Roughly 56% of those still affected are in Gary, a city of 67,000, where residents described spoiled food, damaged homes and growing anger over the slow recovery.
The outages followed thunderstorms that flooded neighborhoods and hit the region with hurricane-force winds, leaving snapped trees and downed power lines across the industrial city.
The prolonged blackout has sharpened complaints in Gary, a majority-Black city long marked by poverty, population loss and disinvestment, that it is again being left behind.