My restaurant lost power for 8 days after a storm and lost $19K in sales. The blackout in Gary, Indiana, is still going.

Joslyn Kelly Joslyn Kelly's J's Breakfast Club in Gary lost power for over a week after a derecho storm hit. The power outage led to a 90% loss in sales for her business. The blackout began on August 11. As of Thursday, over 57,000 utility customers remained without power. This is an as-told-essay based on a conversation with Joslyn Kelly, owner of J's Breakfast Club in Gary, Indiana, which experienced a major power outage following a derecho, or a widespread, long-lived wind storm, on Augu...