Indiana Michigan Power, the main electricity provider for hundreds of thousands in Michiana, is reporting a number of power outages Monday night as high winds bear down on the region. Nearly 3,000 customers have lost power in Indiana and Michigan so far. Over one third of the outages have come from St. Joseph County. Allen…
South Bend Voice has learned new information regarding the downtown South Bend power outage that kept the central business district dark for three days in late May. It was caused by a 50 year old power cable. An Indiana Michigan Power investigation found that the low-voltage cable overheated. The overheated cable caused an underground fire…
Nearly a thousand customers are without power in Elkhart County as of 6 p.m. on Monday, July 7 after a squirrel got into an Indiana & Michigan Power substation. A spokesman for the utility said that power was knocked out around noon to over 4,000 customers. The company says that 102 customers remain without power…
The power remains out for nearly 25,000 households and businesses throughout Northern Indiana and Southwest Michigan. At the height of the outage, over 150,000 customers throughout the region had lost power. Indiana & Michigan Power says that power may not be fully restored until Sunday in South Bend. NIPSCO expects to restore all power today….
The South Bend metro area was battered Monday night during two rounds of storms that packed winds in excess of 80 MPH. Two people were unfortunately lost during the storm. A 14 year-old boy from Winona Lake and a 64 year-old man from La Grange were killed when trees fell on their houses in separate…
