The Daily Scoop
Local weather stories with the context intact.
Weather and community reporting centered on La Porte, with official sources named in every story.
August 26, 2026
After a historic outage, Northwest Indiana deserves answers
The August 11 storm caused exceptional damage. It also exposed urgent questions about vegetation, grid hardening, restoration readiness, and what must change before the next system arrives.
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August 26, 2026
The Midwest atmosphere is changing. Northwest Indiana needs to notice.
The evidence points to a wetter, more humid Midwest and an eastward shift in documented tornado activity. That does not make every storm a climate verdict, but it does change how seriously we should prepare.
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August 24, 2026
Gary's outage is a warning for every Northwest Indiana community
Nearly two weeks without power is more than an inconvenience. It exposes how quickly a severe storm can become a food, health, school, business, and public-safety crisis.
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Two derechos in one historic summer
Official records show separate derechos on June 10 and August 11, 2026. The second swept into Northwest Indiana and compounded the Gary power crisis.
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August 24, 2026
Central Indiana’s record-breaking flood disaster
Repeated downpours from August 11–17 dropped more than a foot of rain in some areas, triggered rescues and road washouts, and drove parts of the White River to levels not seen since 1913.
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