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More than a thousand homes and businesses in Gary, Indiana still lack electricity nearly two weeks after severe storms swept through. The prolonged outage reveals infrastructure vulnerabilities and unequal recovery resources among lower-income communities.
More than a thousand homes and businesses in Gary, Indiana still lack electricity nearly two weeks after severe storms. The prolonged outage is revealing a split: recovery is unequal across different parts of the community, with lower-income neighborhoods facing longer waits for power restoration than wealthier areas.
Infrastructure failures aren't neutral. When storms hit, response and repair speed often correlates with neighborhood income levels—more resources get directed where they're demanded, and wealthier areas typically generate more demands and complaints. Thirteen days without power isn't just inconvenience; it's a sign that the infrastructure serving that part of Gary is both fragile and deprioritized in recovery efforts. The disparity in who gets power back first and who waits is an infrastructure problem with a social fault line running through it.
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