Thousands of Region residents lost power overnight as strong storms moved through Northwest Indiana. At about 2 a.m. there were over 4-thousand outages in the Valparaiso area, more than 3-thousand outages in Gary, and over one-thousand reported in Michigan City. As of about 5:30 a.m., the number of outages in the Northern Indiana Public Service Company service territory was down to approximately 35-hundred. Here is a link to the NIPSCO outage map: http://www.nipscooutages.com/WSSNisourceOutageMap/outagemap.html?action=city&reloaded=true