GARY, Ind. — Three months after a deadly derecho hit Northwest Indiana, ABC57 News is back in Gary following up with the real people impacted by the August 11 storms and looking at the real changes being made in the City.
“So, the question that I’m asking my colleagues is, are we prepared for climate change?”
The August 11 storms left many Hoosiers in the dark for more than two weeks and others underwater as homes flooded. In the days following the disaster, Gary Mayor Eddie Melton had to face a tough reality — the deadly derecho exposed the City’s vulnerabilities…