Mendoza and Mapp, like Nelson, say they already had lost refrigerated food to the heat. Her neighbor, Cody Mendoza, who works for a company that makes batteries and battery generators, set up some battery-powered lamps in his home. She says her father still has power at his house, so she has been going back and forth between her home and his to charge up appliances. Castleton resident Gia Mapp says she had never experienced an outage lasting longer than a few hours since she moved there in 1998. “But they said it was not on their list.”Īs of Monday evening, more than 5,000 AES customers in Indianapolis are still without power. They immediately said they’d get in their truck and follow me over there and get it taken care of,” she said.
She says nothing was done about it until she flagged down a passing utility crew on Saturday, who told her they had never been told to secure a live power line in the area Nelson says she called AES repeatedly over the next two days to report the line. “And I was just terrified that they would mouth those wires and we would have electrocuted baby goats.” She said she immediately feared her two goats would start nibbling on it. A falling tree brought a live power line down into her backyard at her south side home. When a derecho swept through Indiana on Thursday, more than 81,000 AES customers lost power, including Jodie Nelson. We need them because they bring the rain that we need during the summer.INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - A homeowner on Monday said AES Indiana wasn’t correctly logging and responding to service calls days after storms interrupted power across the state. "And I think that the bigger thing here is we just needed to finally get this pattern to break, to start letting some of these summer thunderstorm complexes to come in, because that is the nature of thunderstorms we get in the summertime in the Midwest. "The damage is widespread, but at the same time, it’s not quite as bad as we saw in 2020," said Andrew Pritchard, a local meteorologist based in Illinois. Many weather watchers compared Thursday’s event to a historic derecho that moved through the Midwest in 2020, which caused an estimated $11 billion in damage. The National Weather Service estimates 70% of all derechos occur between May and August. Tracking a derecho during the summer is not an uncommon event. There were no initial reports of fatalities connected to the event, but several people were reported to be injured due to falling trees. Meteorologist Andrew Pritchard said the damage did not to be as extensive as the August 2020 derecho. The damaging winds knocked over trees, power lines and flattened crops.Ĭrop damage reported in Midwest following Thursday's derechoĪ line of severe storms with damaging wind gusts and embedded tornadoes moved through Illinois and Indiana on Thursday. The FOX Forecast Center said the event was a derecho that traveled more than 500 miles from eastern Nebraska through the Ohio Valley.Īlong the route, the SPC received hundreds of wind reports, and in some communities, gusts were estimated to have reached 90 to 100 mph. Utility crews continue to try to restore power to more than 500,000 businesses and homes that were left in the dark after Thursday’s round of severe storms.
WHAT IS A DERECHO? Recovery underway from 500-mile derecho event "And we have to watch out for some isolated minor instances of flash flooding because you obviously got a lot of rain on Thursday, and more rain is just going to increase that risk for flash flooding," said FOX Weather meteorologist Kelly Costa. This phenomenon is frequently referred to as the "ring of fire." The pattern is very similar to the past couple of days, with a ridge parked over the central U.S., forcing storms to move along its northern periphery. The severe weather threat on Friday, June 30, 2023.
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