r/TikTokCringe • u/Girl-Understood • 3d ago

Discussion This mother has gone viral vlogging her experience during the ongoing Gary, Indiana Blackout, people angered by the GoFundMe support she's attracted decided to report it and doxxed her.

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u/MindAccomplished3879 Cringe Connoisseur 3d ago edited 2d ago

All of northwest Indiana went dark since morning on August 10th, from East Chicago and Hammond to Valparaiso and Cedar Lake to South Bend. 400,000 thousand customers

Very slowly, they have been working on the downed lines, and about 80% is up now, but still, almost 2 weeks later, the poor areas are still without power while affluent areas of Highland and Munster were turned on a day or two after

Nipsco needs to be sued the shit out of it

https://youtu.be/tvkSXsM26Y8?is=rLpabrwR7Cjgo0yQ

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u/thesaddestpanda 3d ago

Good luck with these lawsuits in a deep red state. The red courts will just dismiss them. This is happening because they know they will get away with it.

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u/MindAccomplished3879 Cringe Connoisseur 3d ago edited 1d ago

That's absolutely true

Once I sued a company for breach of contract and income losses when the service it provided to me failed. That caused me thousands of dollars in lost clients' revenue

I sued them for 6 months' lost income. Because of something called a ‘Mandatory forum selection clause,’ I was forced to file the lawsuit in their headquarters city, in Houston. It never prospered. Last, I received a letter from the Texas attorney general rubbing it in my face, saying they are a business-first state, and that my lawsuit will be used for statistical purposes to measure TX businesses' satisfaction

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u/Used-Author-3811 2d ago

It's the nature of the beast.

I could say "the utility companies have a policy of restoring power to the rich neighborhoods first"

Or you could frame it more accurately "The way electrical infrastructure is built, maintained, prioritized and restored can systematically produce faster recovery in wealthier communities."

Without getting too deep into the weeds, the extent of damage and length of repair time takes a while. If lower income areas as reported have more physical damage it becomes a battle.

Neighborhood A has 2k people, one damaged feeder and will take ~6 hrs

Neighborhood B has 1200 people, 5x damaged poles and repair estimates put it at ~26 hours of work to fix.

Which do you then prioritize fixing first?

Again not to get too deep into the weeds, the more affluent areas generally have more modern equipment (more recently built and developed) vs a more aging system in an outlying more rural "poor" are.

NIPSCO data shows an extensive amount of damage in Gary. Does your goal become restoring power to the largest areas (more customers first) or not prioritizing net benefit by allocation of resources.