Gary residents face desperation as power outages persist 11 days after deadly storms

Residents in poverty-stricken Gary face health risks from prolonged power loss during extreme heat, threatening vulnerable populations dependent on electricity for cooling and medical equipment.

Eleven days after record-breaking storms submerged Gary, Indiana, thousands of residents remain without power in a city where poverty is not background detail but the very condition that determines who survives a crisis and who does not. The storms exposed what disinvestment had long concealed — that infrastructure neglect and economic precarity, when met with disaster, do not produce inconvenience but genuine danger. In the sweltering heat that followed the floods, the absence of electricity became a question of survival for the elderly, the ill, and those for whom a spoiled refrigerator mean

Gary residents face desperation as power outages persist 11 days after deadly storms

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