(Merrillville, IN) - There are still people throughout the area without power after Monday night’s storm.

 

According to NIPSCO, close to 2,000 customers were still without power this morning in its La Porte service area.

 

Nearly 900 NIPSCO customers in the Michigan City area remained without service while there were still outages in communities like Westville, Mill Creek and Walkerton.

 

NIPSCO Director of Communications Wendy Lussier said it could be awhile before power is restored for all of its customers.

 

“We don’t have an estimated restoration time that we can provide but we can say for customers it’s going to extend multiple days,” she said.

 

Lussier said the damage from the storm was significant enough to have service technicians come in from outside the area to bolster efforts to restore power as quickly as possible.

 

“Overall, we’ve identified 2,900 individual repairs that need to be completed throughout our service territory. That’s what’s extending this into a multi-day outage for some customers,” she said.

 

The total number of NIPSCO outages this morning had been reduced from just over 100,000 to more than 26,000.