LaPorte Mayor Blair Milo gave this update Tuesday morning, June 25, on damage and power outages resulting from Monday evening’s swift-moving storm:
“The powerful storm last night still has some folks without power. They are working as quickly as they can to restore everyone … I am sorry for you who are still waiting. We’ve had some damage to structures, lots of trees and large tree limbs down. As you are cleaning up your property with tree branches, pull them to the side of the street to be picked up by the street department, but be careful not to block the street. If you have a huge amount of branches, you may want to call the street department and give them your address for tree limb pickup: 362-2477. Otherwise, they will be patrolling the streets at some point to get the little piles.
“NIPSCO will continue working until everyone has power again. Repeatedly calling them to report the same outage does not get them there any faster.
“If you were able to have an aerial view of our area, you would understand why it is taking some time to get it all back up and running. Lots of wires were downed by falling trees and limbs and poles broken. There were several live wire fires in the area.
“If there is more information about service or cleanup, I’ll post that information as it comes to me.”