In Gary, Indiana, a month after historic NIPSCO power outage, families still wait for relief
Inside Melissa Dixon’s home in Gary, the lights are back on. Her refrigerator is working. And she’s playing music as she does yard work. The generator that she had on her front steps is gone now. It's more than a month since Dixon and hundreds of thousands of others in Gary and across northwest Indiana were left without power, some for at least two weeks, and she's still feeling anxious.It wasn’t until recently that she finally did a big grocery haul. Until then, she'd been buying only enough…
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