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2026年8月22日 / 美国东部时间晚上7:50 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
和印第安纳州加里市的许多民众一样，沙蒂娅·哈丁一直在等待电力恢复的那一刻。
“这日子简直糟透了，”哈丁告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻记者，“到了晚上我们热得满身大汗，情绪也很烦躁，我们还要照顾孩子，还有需要靠电力驱动氧气罐的老人。”
从8月11日开始，连续数日的强风暴席卷印第安纳州西北部，造成至少7人死亡，约1000人流离失所。风暴带来了创纪录的降雨量，多个社区遭遇洪涝灾害。
根据美国人口普查数据，加里市超过一半的居民在风暴中失去电力供应，该市约三分之一的人口生活在贫困线以下。
“我们持续处于生存模式，这完全不合理，”哈丁说，“这个区域完全没有任何供电服务。到了晚上，街道、道路除了车辆灯光外一片漆黑。”
2026年8月20日，在印第安纳州加里市，密歇根州法明顿市True Cut树木护理公司的工人在一棵被近期风暴刮倒的树木前将其移除。斯科特·奥尔森 / 盖蒂图片社
截至周六，该地区的电力供应商北印第安纳公共服务公司仍有超过30100名客户处于断电状态。而在风暴最严重时，共有374500名客户停电。
本周四，印第安纳州州长迈克·布劳恩向联邦紧急事务管理局申请加快对54个县的重大灾难认定。他估计，风暴及其后续影响造成的损失可能超过50亿美元。
“如果获批，这一认定将意味着能获得更多资源，加快印第安纳州从近期恶劣天气中恢复的进度，”布劳恩在社交媒体上写道。
加里市的许多居民一直依靠社区中心提供热餐、空调，以及给手机充电的机会。
本周，有人针对NIPSCO公司提起集体诉讼，指控该公司未主动修剪电力线路周边的植被。诉讼称，倒伏的树木和植被是此次停电的主要原因。
NIPSCO公司对这一说法提出反驳，表示其“植被管理支出自2016年以来已增长了一倍多”。
“我们强烈不同意对NIPSCO植被管理做法的相关描述，”NIPSCO公司在给CBS新闻芝加哥分社的一份声明中说道。
“我们将从应急管理的角度重新审视我们该如何做得更好，”加里市市长埃迪·米尔顿告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻记者，“但回到公用事业方面，我将鼓励并要求我们加强问责。”
CBS芝加哥团队为本篇报道贡献了内容。
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/flooding-debris-lines-curbs-in-indiana-as-rain-keeps-falling/
印第安纳州降雨持续 洪水及 debris 堆积在路边
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Frustration mounts for thousands still without power after deadly Indiana storms
2026-08-22T19:50:58-0400 / CBS News
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Ash-har Quraishi is a consumer correspondent based in Chicago. He is an Emmy Award-winning journalist with more than 25 years of local, national, international and investigative reporting experience. His work has been featured on CNN, Al Jazeera, The PBS NewsHour, A&E, “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and in The New York Times.
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August 22, 2026 / 7:50 PM EDT / CBS News
Like so many in Gary, Indiana, Shatiya Hardin has been waiting for the minute her power finally turns back on.
“It’s been absolutely horrible,” Hardin told CBS News. “At night we’re sweating, we’re irritable, we have children to look out for, elderly people who need electricity for oxygen tanks.”
Beginning Aug. 11, several days of powerful storms walloped northwest Indiana, killing at least seven people and displacing about 1,000. The storms brought record rainfall that flooded several communities.
In Gary, the storm knocked out electricity for more than half of the city’s residents, where about one in three people lives in poverty, according to U.S. Census data.
“It’s not OK for us to continually be in survival mode,” said Hardin. “We don’t have service in this area at all whatsoever. At night, the streets, the roads, everything is pitch black besides the lights from the cars.”
Workers from True Cut Tree Care of Farmington, Michigan, remove a tree from the front of a home after it was toppled during a recent storm on Aug. 20, 2026, in Gary, Indiana. Scott Olson / Getty Images
As of Saturday, just over 30,100 customers of the Northern Indiana Public Service Company, the region’s electrical utility provider, were still without power. At the height of the storms, 374,500 customers had no electricity.
On Thursday, Indiana Gov. Mike Braun requested an expedited major disaster declaration from FEMA for 54 counties. He estimates losses from the storm and its aftermath could top $5 billion.
“If granted, this declaration will mean significantly more resources to accelerate Indiana’s recovery from the recent severe weather,” Braun wrote on social media.
Many residents in Gary have been relying on a community center for hot meals, air conditioning and a chance to charge their phones.
A class-action lawsuit was filed this week against NIPSCO, alleging the company failed to proactively trim back vegetation from power lines. The lawsuit alleges that downed trees and vegetation were the primary causes of the power outages.
NIPSCO disputes the claim, saying its “vegetation management spend has more than doubled since 2016.”
“We strongly disagree with the characterization of NIPSCO’s vegetation management practices,” NIPSCO said in a statement provided to CBS News Chicago.
“We’re going to revisit what should we do better from an emergency management standpoint,” Gary Mayor Eddie Milton told CBS News. “But going back to the utility side, what I’m going to encourage and demand is that we start having more accountability.”
CBS Chicago Team contributed to this report.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/flooding-debris-lines-curbs-in-indiana-as-rain-keeps-falling/
Flooding debris lines curbs in Indiana as rain keeps falling
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