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Thousands in Indiana still without power a week after deadly storms

Thousands in Indiana still without power a week after deadly storms

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August 20th, 2026

Thousands in Indiana still without power a week after deadly storms

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More than a week after deadly storms hit northwest Indiana, tens of thousands of people still had no power Wednesday.

致命风暴袭击印第安纳州西北部一周多周三数万人没有电

Northern Indiana Public Service Co. (NIPSCO) said about 75,000 customers remained without electricity.

北印第安纳公共服务公司(NIPSCO)表示约有7.5万用户仍然没有电

Most of them were in Lake County near the Illinois border.

其中大多数位于伊利诺伊州边界附近莱克县

That included over 20,000 customers in Gary, where people lined up at community centers for hot meals and phone charging.

这包括加里市超过2万用户那里人们在社区中心排队领取热饭给手机充电

NIPSCO said full restoration in Gary is not expected until Aug. 25.

NIPSCO表示,加里的全面恢复预计要到8月25日才能完成

The storm brought winds of 99 mph and damaged about 300 poles and 44 transmission poles in the city.

风暴带来了每小时99英里的风速损坏了该市约300根电线杆44根输电杆

Executive Melody Birmingham said the repairs are not simple and that systems are being rebuilt.

高管梅洛迪·伯明翰表示修复工作并不简单系统正在重建中

She acknowledged the burden of losing food and living without air conditioning.

承认失去食物没有空调的生活带来了很大负担

The storm initially left 300,000 customers in the dark.

风暴最初导致30万用户断电

Some Gary residents said they felt ignored.

一些加里居民表示他们感到被忽视了

Birmingham, who is Black, denied that low-income residents were overlooked and blamed social media posts.

伯明翰是黑人,她否认低收入居民被忽视,并归咎于社交媒体上的帖子

She said the outages affect affluent areas too and have nothing to do with race.

她说停电影响富裕地区,与种族无关。

Gary Mayor Eddie Melton said more than 600 linemen were working.

加里市长埃迪·梅尔顿,有600多名线路工人正在工作

He called it a regional, not just a city, problem.

他称是一个区域性问题,而不仅仅是城市问题。

State officials said eight people had died since the storms began Aug. 11, including a 4-year-old boy.

州官员表示自8月11日暴风雨开始以来,已有八人死亡其中包括一名四岁男孩

In Whiting, 74-year-old Myra Carden lost power twice, including a new outage Tuesday.

在怀廷74岁的迈拉·卡登两次断电包括周二一次新停电

She said her outage reports only get a response that she already filed one.

她说她提交的停电报告只得到回复说她已经报过一次了

Carden uses a generator to keep her refrigerator running but only when someone is home to watch it.

卡登用发电机让冰箱保持运转但只有家里有人看着时才用。

August 20th, 2026

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