How 99 mph winds left Gary in the dark for nearly two weeks

This story was originally published in Capital B Gary. A 99 mph wind gust — comparable to a Category 2 hurricane — tore through Gary on Aug. 11, battering neighborhoods and knocking out power to nearly 38,300 utility customers in the city. Ten days later, about 20,000 NIPSCO customers remained without electricity . That’s nearly half of the roughly 43,000 customers still without power across Northwest Indiana at that time. The power company has said Gary experienced the most widespread outage…