The derecho that hit northwest Indiana caused such an extensive power failure that the outage could be detected from space.
NASA nighttime satellite images revealed wide areas where the region’s usual glow vanished, underscoring the scale of the electrical disruption.
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To show the impact, NASA compared images of northwest Indiana and the Chicago area taken on Sunday, August 9, and again on Thursday, August 13, after the storms.
As NBC Chicago reported, NIPSCO data showed roughly 317,000 outages in northwest Indiana, closely matching the darkened area in the later image…