• •NPR and BBC News confirm thousands of Indiana residents are without electricity nearly two weeks post-storm.
• •The August 11 weather event caused significant infrastructure damage, leaving residents in Gary struggling to access basic necessities.
• •Neither report provides a clear timeline from utility providers for full restoration of services to all affected households.

Thousands of residents in northwest Indiana remain without power nearly two weeks after severe storms struck the region on August 11. While NPR reports on the logistical scale of the outages, the BBC highlights the acute humanitarian strain in Gary, where a third of the population lives in poverty. The discrepancy in coverage underscores that what is a utility failure for the state is an active survival crisis for the most vulnerable residents. It remains unclear how long the remaining households will be forced to wait for restoration.