(La Porte County, IN) - Just a handful of power outages remain this morning in La Porte County following a late afternoon storm on Wednesday.

 

To the west, though, about 1,500 NIPSCO customers were still without service before 10 a.m. in the Chesterton and Valparaiso areas.  The outages were from the high winds of a storm that brought relief to the hot and humid conditions.

 

La Porte resident Bob Wellinski was in Michigan City as the dark clouds approached.

 

“You could just feel that drop in temperature, I’m guessing probably 15 degrees or so,” he said.

 

Wellinski was at Marquette High School in Michigan City preparing to take pictures for the school during the graduation ceremony.  He said the graduates walked across the street to a church for mass then hustled back to the school in the rain for commencement.

 

“They were using their gowns and programs and whatever they could to shield themselves from the wind and the rain,” he said.

 

According to NIPSCO, there were about 30 customers still without power this morning in the Michigan City and La Porte customer service territories.