“There are people stuck in their houses who haven’t eaten for days.” Gary, Indiana is still without power. It’s been nearly two weeks since unprecedented windstorms knocked out electricity in northwest Indiana on August 11. Residents are still waiting on a response from the government. As many as 10,200 residents of Lake County’s only majority-Black municipality are still relying exclusively on mutual aid to get by, as food banks run short on supplies and families with medically dependent members need gas-powered generators to run breathing machines and other needed equipment. Private electrical utility NIPSCO, facing mounting public pressure over recent billion-dollar investments into new data center infrastructure for Amazon and Google, says full power restoration may not come until Tuesday.

From BreakThrough News via This RSS Feed.