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[Tim]

Okay - I've posted stuff about the ND and I don't want to gum up the board with any more threads. So I'll just use this one. If you're not interested please skip over it.

As I've said many times, the News Dispatch is one of those hometown institutions that's been part of my life since I was a kid in Edgewood in the 50's. And to be fair they do get it right a lot of times. But in the last couple of years - apparently due to budget/staff cuts - the paper's really gone downhill. That's just sad - but it also pisses me off that someone in power is letting this happen.

I'll not be posting Deb Sederberg gaffes. She's obviously a tolerated lost cause.

So - today's rant. Is a 10-year-old running the online edition? How many times to we see pictures like this? Does whoever's doing that NOT know that you can't just take a thumbnail file, stretch it ten times its original size, and have it not look like crap? They do this constantly. From today's story about the park idiocy. First the thumbnail - and then a screenshot of how it came out.




Again, it is incomprehensible that someone is looking at this and approving it.

End rant.

[Ang]

Actually, they were and there are still many people who don't have power yet today---from FRIDAY!!! NIPSCO isn't even taking calls right now.

http://thenewsdispatch.com/articles/2010/0...b9449916423.txt

NIPSCO: All power back on by Tuesday

By Kimberly King
Staff Writer
Published: Monday, June 21, 2010 4:13 AM CDT
Hundreds of La Porte County residents will remain in the dark until Tuesday following powerful storms that hit the Midwest on Friday evening, according to an official with the Northern Indiana Public Service Company.

“There’s a number of customers still without power,” said Nick Meyer, NIPSCO communication manager. “Obviously we recognize it’s frustrating. Even some of our employees are without power [at their homes].”

NIPSCO and Indiana Michigan Power Co. reported power outages affecting a total of about 100,000 Indiana electricity customers on Saturday. Throughout NIPSCO’s entire service area, 14,500 customers remained without electricity as of Sunday afternoon. In the county, 1,659 La Porte residents were without service. There were 3,228 customers in Michigan City still in the dark.

The numerous outages occurred around 5 p.m. Friday by trees that fell on power lines and high winds that snapped electrical poles.

“Crews have been out non-stop since Friday when the storms hit,” Meyer said.

Due to the heavy number of outages, about 150 contractors working for facilities from neighboring states have been working with NIPSCO to restore service.

Meyer estimated that by Monday morning, the number of customers without power would drop to 4,000.

“The remaining 4,000 will go down to 500 [by the end of Monday] and be completed Tuesday,” Meyer said. “That’s our estimate at this point given the severity of it out there right now.”

On Saturday, the Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District canceled passenger train service between South Bend and Michigan City because the storms damaged power lines providing electricity to the line. Train service between Michigan City and Chicago was not affected.

Indiana State Police Senior Trooper Trent Keifer said 62-year-old Wai Lung Tam died Friday night after a tree fell on him at Salamonie Reservoir south of Huntington. His California hometown was not immediately known.

Meyer noted that the storms, which brought fierce winds, lightning and rain, didn’t just wreak havoc in Indiana but the entire Midwest.

Sheriff’s officials say a driver was killed near Dexter, Mich., about 40 miles west of Detroit, when winds toppled a tree onto a vehicle.

In Chicago, powerful winds and heavy rains broke windows in the 110-story Willis Tower. Witnesses say the debris looked like icicles falling from the skyscraper, formerly known as Sears Tower.

Utility officials say power was out for about 215,000 Chicago-area customers and 150,000 in Michigan following the storms.

Storms left about 19,000 in the dark in Wisconsin.

— The Associated Press contributed to this report