(Merrillville, IN) - It’s been over a week now since some NIPSCO customers have been without power since Tuesday’s major rain and wind storm.

The numbers continue dropping, though.

According to NIPSCO, over 700 customers were still without power this afternoon in its La Porte service territory while that figure was just over 300 in the Michigan City service area.  NIPSCO also reports nearly 388 remaining outages in the Westville area.

There are more than 10,000 customers still without electrical service in Merrillville and Lake Station combined while the number is over 1,300 in Chesterton and Valparaiso combined.  NIPSCO said the number of outages throughout its northern Indiana service territory stands at over 83,000.

At one point, about 60-percent of NIPSCO’s 500,000 customers were without power, the most in recent memory for the utility company from a storm.