“We’re at day 12, and 12 days is too long for families to be without power,” said the city’s mayor Eddie Melton in a video message Sunday. He’s urging Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO) to restore power to all of the city’s residents by the end of Tuesday, he told residents.
At one point, there were nearly 374,500 power outages in the area, The Guardian reports, with that number dropping to 14,500 by Sunday and 10,187 by Monday. Gary has a population estimated at 67,289, with its metro area estimated at 680,661 according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
“This situation was predictable. It was obvious and it was preventable,” Otto Shragal, an attorney with the Allen Law Group, told The Guardian. Indiana Governor Mike Braun also blamed NIPSCO, telling Inside INdiana Business that the utility “needs to pick up the pace, because we’ve given them national guard help, all of our agencies.”
Braun said on Friday that he “formally requested an expedited major disaster declaration for individual and public assistance for 54 counties from FEMA,” which, if granted, would “mean significantly more resources to accelerate Indiana’s recovery from the recent severe weather.” A state fund is reportedly providing emergency aid grants of up to $5,000, and last week, President Trump declared a state of emergency for Indiana counties affected by the severe storms.
Local celebrities Keith Lee, a food critic, and Indiana Pacers player Tyrese Haliburton are co-hosting an event to distribute relief supplies along with the Salvation Army, ACE Hardware, and Gary officials outside of the city’s Roosevelt Pavilion Monday, joining several other local aid efforts. Hopefully, all of those along with full restoration of power can ease residents’ difficulties in the short-term, as cleanup and repairs could take many months.
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