(WISH) — More than 70,000 customers on Thursday night remained without electricity after severe storms happened in northwest Indiana last week.

Data from PowerOutage.us showed tens of thousands of people are still waiting for service to return.

Northern Indiana Public Service Co. (NIPSCO) said Thursday afternoon that 68,000 of the remaining outages are storm-related. Since the storms on Aug. 11, the utility has restored power to 30...