(Merrillville, IN) - NIPSCO is unable to estimate right now when customers who lost power during today’s powerful storm will have their service restored.

NIPSCO Communications Director Jessica Cantarelli said an estimate will be given at some point but crews need time to assess the situation with over 300,000 outages throughout its entire northern Indiana service area.

“Please be rest-assured, that is our priority to get that information to folks,” she said.

Cantarelli said the number of outages is among the worst from a storm in the history of the utility company.

According to Indiana Michigan Power Company, nearly 3,000 of their customers in northern La Porte County were without electrical service late this afternoon.