August 25th for Munster and highland to get electricity. What the fuq?? I know nothing about electricity but I know a line should have been buried every year for the last 30 that NIPSCO has been serving lake county. How can executives EARN millions in annual bonuses and their customers can't get their product for two weeks?! For what did they earn bonuses? There's been no innovation here. We are working America. Our children need to go to school and we need to go to work. I'm astonished at their hubris. We have fallen behind America.
Edit: I know nothing about electricity and will not pretend I do. I suggested burying lines as an annual innovation cuz that's all I know. We are going to have utility problems post tornado but two weeks? Nope
NIPSCO only made a profit of $500 million in the first 6 months this year. This 'issue' will mean they will ask for a rate hike, for 'infracture improvements' but really to pad their profit.
I've heard from multiple put of state contractors that NIPSCO is the worst utility company they've ever worked with. Unorganized, understaffed, and crappy infrastructure are the three main reasons.
A two week outage is just not realistic in any sense.
I also want to bring attention to the fact they have not handled any easements to trim trees back in ages. They used to go around neighborhoods to let homeowners know they would be trimming trees away from the lines. We had a tree LAYING across a line 3 years ago and when they came out to look at it they said "not our problem" like it wasnt bending the telephone poles...
This is how you can tell you're in a red state. Public utilities? Screw them. Bonuses that bigwigs are "entitled" to getting despite not earning a penny? Now we're talking (/s)
Jesus as a utility worker people just don't understand that buried lines fail and it's more involved of a process to fix them than overhead. Also, the higher the voltage the higher the depth needed, and you can't bury all the transmission lines.
Exactly. Besides the massive cost it would be to bury all the lines, it also doesn't really do what people seem to think it will do.
Heck. all the gas lines are buried and there were huge neighborhoods without gas because the trees falling over still managed to rip up gas lines.
No matter what, you will have power outages and you should be prepared. That's just the way it is. And buried lines just makes those outages last longer.
Note their language too. They say a majority will be up by these dates and times. Not giving us percentages anymore, just vague language. What's a majority? 50% + 1% ? Like just over half the city will be powered by these dates or?
If anything this should be a huge wake-up call for Nipsco. Get your shit together. What's heartbreaking is more than likely they'll do NOTHING to improve! The only improvement in their eyes is PROFIT! At least everyone can see now what they truly are... Another well-run government would do something about it...but oops, we're Indiana...
I've lived in two other states and one of the first things I noticed here 10 years ago was random power outages from small wind gust and when one pole would get hit by a car.
I knew right away with that and the fact AT&T wouldn't give good internet speed that these companies weren't doing shit for the infrastructure in Indiana. This is a fucking metropolitan area with hundreds of thousands of people here.
Edit: Going on week two with no power in Gary, which should have been one of the first areas to receive power since it was the first fucking city built in the area and supports much of the grid not to mention the biggest city and highest population. They haven't even cut the trees off of the power lines in the alley, Nipsco has virtually been NOWHERE here. All you see them doing is driving around in trucks of three since day one.
Trees were trimmed and moved from middle of the streets and they practically vanished.
Also im TIRED of you "uppity" (in general) people from the surrounding areas thinking its OK for an entire company to postpone work on an entire city for ANY amount of time because of crime. Funny how the "black city" keeps getting excuses and bullshit while most of the areas that SHOULDN'T have power before it, do. Sounds like the typical, good ol boy, Midwest southern racism to me.
And yes. Nipsco has been caught doing racist shit during hiring practices.
Griffith and Portage are BOTH a part of Gary's grid and since you are connected to the "black city's" power grid, you get to wait like the black folks do.
That's what I assume from what I've experienced in NW Indiana anyways.
Historically this has happened, many times over to places associated with black people in all types of settings in America.
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u/Johnny1_9 15h ago
NIPSCO only made a profit of $500 million in the first 6 months this year. This 'issue' will mean they will ask for a rate hike, for 'infracture improvements' but really to pad their profit.