GARY, Ind. (WBBM Newsradio) – About 107,000 NIPSCO customers remain without power Monday morning as crews continue working to repair widespread damage from a series of severe storms across northern Indiana.
NIPSCO said it has restored service to about 231,000 customers since the storm event began. The utility has recorded about 338,000 outages from Aug. 11 through Aug. 16 as repeated rounds of severe weather damaged its electric system.
The Aug. 11 storm alone caused about 301,000 outages, affecting more than 60% of NIPSCO’s electric customers and making it one of the largest outage events in the company’s history. About 81,500 customers affected by that initial storm were still without power Sunday night…