{"id":812384,"date":"2026-08-13T15:18:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T15:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/812384\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T15:18:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T15:18:17","slug":"more-than-250000-without-power-after-nipscos-largest-outage-event-in-company-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/812384\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 250,000 without power after NIPSCO&#8217;s largest outage event in company history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The damaging straight-line winds Tuesday afternoon are now confirmed as a &#8220;derecho.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a widespread windstorm sometimes called an inland hurricane because of its hurricane-force winds.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what led to NIPSCO&#8217;s worst power outage in company history.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/wsbt.com\/news\/local\/photos-trees-topple-during-tuesdays-severe-weather-rain-winds-straight-line-tornado-property-damage-house-business\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PHOTOS: Severe weather topples trees; leaves thousands without power<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It says the 100-mile-per-hour winds left historic damage that will take a while to repair.<\/p>\n<p>More than 250,000 customers don&#8217;t have power, mostly in places like Hammond and Gary.<\/p>\n<p>The company warns it may be multiple days before the power is back.<\/p>\n<p>The damage and outages are also leading to more school closures and delays in our western areas.<\/p>\n<p>You can check the status of power outages on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nipsco.com\/outages\/power-outages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NIPSCO&#8217;s website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The damaging straight-line winds Tuesday afternoon are now confirmed as a &#8220;derecho.&#8221; That&#8217;s a widespread windstorm sometimes called&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-812384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}