Indiana residents endure 11th day without power after storms topple power lines
33,124 residents still in the dark as utility company says it is working to restore power in north-west of state Thousands of residents of north-west Indiana on Saturday were headed for their 11th day without electric power after storms swept through the state, toppling trees and power lines, earlier in August. The powerless conditions have led to food lines, closed businesses, dead phones, no schools, spoiled food, dirty clothes, dry gas pumps and a multitude of other deleterious effects on life without energy. The Northern Indiana Public Service Company (Nipsco), the region’s major utility company, said 33,124 customers were still without power on Saturday. And residents in the community of Gary have been told they may not see any restoration until Tuesday – two weeks after the 11 August start of a days-long period of potent storms and flooding that killed several people . Nipsco posted that it had been able to restore power to 341,376 customers since the storms out of a total of 374,500 that had lost service.
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The utility said in statement: “Substantial progress has been made in restoring service to our communities.” But it said customers “may continue to encounter circumstances that temporarily increase numbers of outages”. Among those killed in the stormy weather was a four-year-old child who died after a tree fell on his home in Geneva Township.
