NIPSCO has announced that they expect 95% of its remaining customers left without power from Monday night’s storms to have service restored by the end of the day today with final completion to be made by late Thursday night.

Within the first 36 hours following the severe line of storms, NIPSCO crews worked around-the-clock to restore service to 96,000 of the 128,000 total customers affected.

Nearly all parts of NIPSCO’s service areas are experiencing sustained damage and electric outages. Approximately 32,000 of the remaining customer outages (as of 11:30 a.m. CT) are predominately located in Elkhart, Lake, LaPorte and Porter counties. Locally, residents in Warsaw, Winona Lake and Syracuse are still without power and, according to NIPSCO, will not likely see electric service restored before tomorrow.

“Restoring a sense of normalcy to the lives of our customers is our top priority,” said NIPSCO CEO Jim Stanley. “Every available effort and resource, including support called in from neighboring states and utilities, is being deployed until service to every last customer is returned. We thank our community officials, especially local fire and police, for their efforts to ensure public safety.”

The magnitude of this storm was comparable to the June 24, 2013, storm, which led to one of the largest restoration efforts in NIPSCO’s history. Extensive damage from this week’s storm included more than 130 broken distribution poles, tree damage and 580 reports of downed electric wire.

More than 600 NIPSCO and contracted resources from throughout Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and Missouri are actively working to speed-up the overall restoration efforts.

The following list indicates those communities with the largest number of customers affected and the status of NIPSCO’s estimation for restoring electric service.