Tens of thousands of residents in northwest Indiana have gone over a week without power after a deadly storm knocked down trees and power lines. The prolonged outage has closed schools and businesses and forced residents into survival mode, with reports of spoiled food, food lines for hot meals, dead phones, and dry gas pumps. A utility company has said it is working to restore power, with one report citing 33,124 residents still without electricity by the 11th day.
The Guardian frames the story similarly as a hardship narrative, emphasizing the cascading effects of the outage (food lines, spoiled food, dead phones, dry gas pumps) and gives a specific updated figure of 33,124 residents still without power on the 11th day.
NPR reports the basic facts of the Indiana power outage as a humanitarian hardship story: tens of thousands without power for nine days, closed schools and businesses, caused by a deadly storm.
The Washington Times uses nearly identical framing and language ('survival mode') as NPR, describing residents on their ninth day without power, throwing out spoiled food and lining up for hot meals, with no distinct ideological angle.