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Many people in Indiana have no power. This is one week after big storms.

Many people in Indiana have no power. This is one week after big storms.

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August 20th, 2026

Many people in Indiana have no power. This is one week after big storms.

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More than a week after big storms hit northwest Indiana, many people still had no power on Wednesday.

大風暴襲擊印第安納州西北部一個多星期星期三很多人還是沒有電

About 75,000 customers had no electricity.

大約七萬五千個用戶沒有電

Most of them lived in Lake County, near the Illinois border.

他們大部分住在萊克縣靠近伊利諾州邊界

Over 20,000 of them lived in Gary.

他們之中超過兩萬人住在加里

People waited in line at community centers for hot food and phone charging.

人們在社區中心排隊熱食手機充電

The power company is called NIPSCO.

電力公司NIPSCO

It said Gary will not have full power until Aug. 25.

它說加里到8月25日才有全部電力

The storm had winds of 99 mph.

暴風的風速是每小時99英里

It broke about 300 poles and 44 big poles in the city.

它弄斷了城裡大約300根電線桿44根大電線桿

The company leader is Melody Birmingham.

公司領導梅洛迪·伯明翰

She said the repair work is hard.

她說修理工作很難

The systems are being built again.

系統正在重新建造

She said people lost food and had no air conditioning.

她說人們失去了食物沒有冷氣

The storm first left 300,000 customers without power.

暴風一開始30萬個用戶沒有電力

Some people in Gary said they felt forgotten.

加里的一些人他們覺得被忘記了

Birmingham is Black.

伯明翰是黑人

She said poor people were not ignored.

她說窮人沒有被忽略

She blamed social media posts.

她怪罪社交媒體的貼文

She said rich areas also had no power.

她說有錢的地區也沒有電

She said race is not the reason.

她說種族不是原因

The mayor of Gary is Eddie Melton.

加里的市長是埃迪·梅爾頓

He said over 600 workers were fixing the power.

他說超過六百個工人在修理電力

He called it a problem for the whole region, not just the city.

他說這是整個地區的問題不只是城市的問題。

State officials said eight people died since the storms began on Aug. 11.

州官員從8月11日暴風雨開始以來,有八個人死了

One was a 4-year-old boy.

其中一個四歲的男孩

In Whiting, a 74-year-old woman named Myra Carden lost power two times.

在懷廷,一個叫邁拉·卡登的七十四歲女人停了兩次電。

She lost power again on Tuesday.

在星期二停了電

She said when she reports the problem, the answer is that she already reported it.

她說當她報告問題時答案她已經報告過了

She uses a generator to keep her refrigerator cold.

她用發電機她的冰箱保持冷

But she only turns it on when someone is home to watch it.

她只在有人在家看著它的時候才打開它。

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