Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026, "Tens of thousands of residents in northwest Indiana were in survival mode Thursday as they endured a ninth day without power..."
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Northern Indiana Public Service Co. said 68,000 customers were still without power as of Thursday morning, the majority of them in Lake County beside the Illinois border... power is not expected to be fully restored until Tuesday in some places, including Gary, IN.
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“We’re always in survival mode in Gary. And I think that’s probably why it wasn’t so much of an uproar because the first few days, it was like, ‘OK, we’re used to this .... but this is the second week now,” Hardin said. “It’s not OK for us to continually be in survival mode, doing the best that we can.”