Nearly two weeks after a damaging storm struck her town in Indiana, Terry Dubois is one of tens of thousands of people still without power.
The 77-year-old has been relying on friends to bring her non-perishable food to eat.
Her son brought her a power bank so she can charge her phone and keep in touch with the outside world.
Thankfully, the summer heat hasn’t been too punishing, Dubois said, meaning she has not missed her air conditioning too much.
“I’ve never seen a storm like that in my entire life. Never, never,” she tells the BBC.
“It was like a sheer wall of wind,” she recalls.
A wave of sudden, severe storms brought flooding and tornadoes to the US Midwest on 11 August, including to Chicago and Indiana, where seven people were killed.
The former industrial town of Gary, which runs along the southern shore of Lake Michigan, was hit particularly hard. Wind gusts peaked at 99mph (159kmh), according to the National Weather Service.
The worst of the storm only lasted five to 10 minutes, but the impacts are lingering 12 days later.
