r/TikTokCringe • u/Girl-Understood • Aug 22 '26

Discussion This mother has gone viral vlogging her experience during the ongoing Gary, Indiana Blackout, people angered by the GoFundMe support she's attracted decided to report it and doxxed her.

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u/skyfishgoo Aug 22 '26

wait, gary indiana has been without power for 6 days?

how is this not national news?

where the fuck is FEMA

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u/BrightnessSamantha Aug 22 '26

I live in this area where it happened. It's not just Gary. Although they were hit one of the hardest. Many towns have parts without power still and they are actually on day 11 with no power. Storm was on August 11. It was caused from huricane type winds coming off of the lake. The most northern towns in NWI got hit the hardest. I was lucky and lost power for only 15 hours but I live farther south. I work in Griffith, IN and there are huge parts of Griffith with downed poles and exposed wires still with no power. And anywhere you go in NWI you'll see huges trees and branches just lining the road still waiting to be picked up by the city. National Guard was here (or is still, haven't heard much about them since last week) to help clear all the downed trees everywhere.

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u/BrightnessSamantha Aug 22 '26

I just took this picture of our outage map. The bulk of the storm pretty much ripped right through Gary and moved slightly southwest from there. I was at work when it happened, I have never seen anything like it. It was scary and seemed to come out of nowhere.

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u/Basic_Comb_8153 Aug 23 '26

Incorrect. It didn’t move southwest. 🫩

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u/skyfishgoo Aug 22 '26

climate change.

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u/BrightnessSamantha Aug 22 '26

Yup. We have been getting crazy storms and tornado/hurricane winds here this summer. This is the second time this has happened to the area though this time it has been much worse and the outage has gone on for a lot longer

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u/FakinItAndMakinIt Aug 22 '26

I live in south Louisiana, several miles inland, and it’s not unheard of for us to lose power for 1-4 weeks or longer after a hurricane, even though we’re not right on the coast.

And that’s with our power companies being experts at recovery, having robust recovery/repair plans, and staging trucks and workers from all over the US all around south Louisiana before the storm even hit.

I assume the power companies in Indiana weren’t as prepared or organized, and didn’t know to stage resources before the storm. Getting those resources in place after the damage is done is so much harder.

And I imagine that residents were also caught off guard and didn’t have supplies — I can’t imagine going through a power outage in summer without my hurricane box filled up and knowing beforehand to get cash, gas, and prescriptions.