Shatiya Hardin, meanwhile, said the state of affairs has been “absolutely horrible”.

“At night we’re sweating, we’re irritable, we have children to look out for, elderly people who need electricity for oxygen tanks,” she instructed the BBC’s US associate CBS.

“It’s not OK for us to continually be in survival mode.”

Amid mounting frustration, native residents have launched a class-action lawsuit, accusing the utility firm Nipsco of failing to handle the timber which introduced down the energy strains in the storm.

In the lawsuit, resident Jack Tipold said he was in the center of dental surgical procedure when the energy failed.

He said he was pressured to abandon the process and was discharged with out satisfactory ache treatment.

“I had all my teeth removed, and no medication for 48 hours. Let me tell you something, it was a struggle,” he instructed CBS.

Nipsco has denied wrongdoing and said it would “vigorously” defend itself in courtroom.

Faith leaders alarmed by the ongoing outage held a press convention on Saturday outside a native church.

“We come together today with one voice, asking those who have the power… to release the resources to our brothers and our sisters, our mothers and our fathers, because 12 days is long enough,” he said, according to the Indianapolis Star.