More than 28,000 Indiana customers remained without electricity nearly two weeks after severe storms and flooding began.

Severe storms and flooding had affected Indiana since August 11. By the morning of August 23, local electricity providers reported that more than 28,000 customers remained without power.

The broader event had caused outages for hundreds of thousands of customers cumulatively. At least seven people had died, according to the report.

Gary was identified as one of the more severely affected cities. The source did not provide restoration schedules, utility-by-utility outage counts or the amount of damaged transmission and distribution infrastructure.