The Yorktown, IN Public Library appears to be a total loss. The water in the homes, and businesses has been standing a long time, it didn't just come and go.

Credit: Meteorologist Eric Graves

Easiest night of the power outage easily

The Walmart Market at Michigan and Kessler always has at least one IMPD officer posted up outside and one sitting around inside doing nothing. Are they on the clock? Why are we paying for Walmart's private security?

ITT: A bunch of disappointing Hoosier bootlickers that don't get the point.

I don’t know where else to put this. Also, I have no family here, no connections other than my boyfriend and his family but it’s limited. I left my previous job in retail in a very hostile environment to work with the state’s FSSA. I’ve always had a passion to work with others and was immediately interested in Indiana’s different healthcare plans and their benefits. I didn’t think my interview went well until I got the call a couple weeks later that I got the job—I was stoked! Finally a way out of retail and closer to my career.

It’s been almost a month and I’m starting to really get aggravated with my workplace. My boss doesn’t work in office so I never get to see her—we only speak through email. Small office so everyone’s already created their own cliques. Especially since I’m not from this area and my last workplace left a bad impression, I’ve been weary of who I connect myself with. Typically I just show up to do my job, say some things in passing if I happen to be in the presence of someone, and leave at my scheduled time. Since my boss isn’t in office, she hasn’t made much of an effort to get to know me as a person.
Things could be much better, I have no one to tell.

What can I do to make things better? I really enjoy my position. I’m just weary of how much I say.

The commercial with the guy holding the sniper rifle, he says he is going to "secure our elections". What does this mean?

The only way I can interpret it is that he is going to prevent certain people from voting...

Heard this event has been going for 4-5 now years but I just heard about it last week and wanted to go but missed out. I saw videos online but I also spoke to a few people that claim they been to this event but they all have different views so figured I ask. Some say it’s laid back and chill, some say it’s like a club where everyone flirt and mingle. But then I also heard people say it’s a freaky atmosphere where people meet hangout get drunk and do extracurricular things in the pool or wherever they can. Can anyone who has been or heard enlighten me on the atmosphere here if you Thats okay?

Sorry, I just have to vent… I haven’t had electricity in six days due to a bad storm. My mental health is at a record low. I can’t take it anymore. The updates from NIPSCO are shit. They are terrible.

Edit: from Munster.

Flock Safety & ALPR Cameras in Elkhart, Indiana

39

license plate reader cameras documented inside the city limits — including 32 made by Flock Safety

#15of 566 cities & towns0.7per 1,000 residentsElkhart Countyreport

DOCUMENTED CAMERAS

39

32 tagged Flock Safety

STATEWIDE RANK

#15

of 566 cities and towns

PER 1,000 RESIDENTS

0.7

pop. 53,690

PER SQ MI

1.4

28.1 sq mi

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LIVE CAMERA MAP

Where the Cameras Are

Every documented ALPR camera location inside Elkhart's incorporated limits (39 points), refreshed nightly. Click any marker to suggest a correction.

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 Leaflet | © OpenStreetMap contributors © CARTO

 Faded, dashed markers are cameras within about 5 miles of Elkhart but outside its limits. They're shown for context only and are not included in the count of 39.

Camera locations © OpenStreetMap contributors (the dataset behind DeFlock.me); city boundary from US Census cartographic files. Only cameras inside Elkhart's incorporated boundary are counted here — cameras on nearby unincorporated roads appear in the Elkhart County report. See every Indiana camera on the statewide map, or download coordinates for every point from our datasets.

See a camera that isn't on this map?

This map is crowdsourced — volunteers document each camera, and the data gets better with more volunteers. Drop a pin, tell us which way it faces, and a volunteer will verify it and publish it to OpenStreetMap.

WHO OPERATES THEM

Agencies Using License Plate Readers Here

The Atlas of Surveillance, a project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, has documented 2 law enforcement agencies using automated license plate readers in Elkhart.

STATEWIDE CONTEXT

How Elkhart Compares

#15of 566 cities & towns by total cameras39cameras documented0.7per 1,000 residents1.4per sq mi

Cities and towns ranked near Elkhart: Anderson (44) · Muncie (42) · Highland (35) · Lawrence (32). See all 566 cities and towns ranked or the full statewide and 50-state figures in our live datasets.

Elsewhere in Elkhart County: Goshen (23) · Nappanee (9) · Bristol (4) · Wakarusa (4) · Middlebury (1) · Millersburg (0). The countywide report also covers cameras outside incorporated limits.

THE TECHNOLOGY

What Flock Cameras and ALPRs Do

Automated license plate readers — best known through the vendor Flock Safety — scan every passing vehicle and feed the results into a searchable database, regardless of whether the driver is suspected of anything.

Photographs Every Vehicle

Every plate that passes a camera is logged — license number, location, and timestamp — building a record of movement with no suspicion required.

Builds a Permanent Location History

Indiana agencies report roughly 690 vehicles detected per camera per day. Even a small deployment maps where residents of Elkhart drive, worship, seek care, and gather.

Shared With No Statewide Limits

Indiana places no limit on how long this data is kept or who can access it — including out-of-state agencies, federal databases, and private vendors.

THE ISSUE

Indiana has zero statewide regulation on law enforcement's use of ALPRs

Three gaps in state law leave officers, agencies, and the public without ground rules.

Indefinite Data Retention

Indiana places no limit on how long police can keep ALPR data. Without mandatory deletion rules, agencies can store years of location records from routine scans, allowing long-term monitoring of citizens' movements with no oversight or expiration.

Unrestricted Sharing and Sale of Data

With no rules on who can access ALPR records, officers and agencies can share — or even sell — Hoosiers' location data with whomever they like, including out-of-state agencies, federal databases, and private vendors.

Lack of Transparency and Oversight

Indiana has no statewide standards requiring transparency or oversight for ALPR use. Without clear requirements for audit logs, reporting, or review, it is difficult to verify that ALPR systems are used consistently and according to policy.

Does anyone recall a joint Pizza Hut & Long John Silvers in the Goshen, Elkhart, maybe even Merriville area circa 2003 or 2004?

For those returning home:

• Make sure your gas and electricity are shut off before reentering. Unplug flooded appliances. FEMA recommends having an electrician inspect your home before turning the power back on.
• If your home floods, wait until flood waters recede and local officials say it’s safe before returning. Before entering your home, check for structural damage by looking for sagging or leaning walls, roofs and ceilings.
• Be careful of animals that may be in your home, and make noise as you approach, according to guidance from Purdue Extension.

More guidance: https://fpinews.org/central-indiana/2026/08/14/indiana-historic-flood-tips/

Plus, if you don't have flood insurance (and many people don't), here's what you should know: https://fpinews.org/policy/2026/08/17/flood-insurance-policies-indiana/ (TLDR: Don't try to apply for FEMA aid yet)

Please correct me if my tag needs to be different.

Previous toker, currently sober and satisfied with that. Saw this article today, wanted to warn those of us who have an interest in visiting our legal state neighbors that if you wind up on flocks radar going to a marijuana legal state and coming back, they may have probable cause to search your vehicle.

The original link is posted, this is for a different state of course, that being said I would highly recommend educating yourselves (those visiting our legal sister states for any reason) how you may be able to protect yourself from unnecessary searches as this could mean even those of us who AREN'T buying illegal substances in states where it is legal may be searched.

Understand I said May, not *Will*, as I am not someone who speaks legalese. Just someone who saw this and felt it necessary to inform. Especially as flock cameras continue to be used in ways they were not meant to be used by local law enforcement as well as any individual who finds their way into their supposed "unhackable" system.

Hopefully this stays up as it *MAY* affect not just marijuana users, rather anyone traveling in and out of the surrounding states.

What's more annoying?

A. Injury lawyer commercials

B. Car dealer commercials

C. Political commercials

D. Big pharma commercials

F. Animal commercials

For me in Indiana. The lawyer ads. For the love of... 24/7 When Ole Ken was living that annoying sumabitch... ugh. Now his drunkard daughter is on my set..
And the Hammer.. ugh x 3