Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Hurricane Laura destroyed seven Orange County homes, left 70 with major damage and 1,317 more with minor and light damage, according to the first damage assessments from the Category 4 storm that did its worst damage east of the Sabine River, in Louisiana. Michelle Tubbleville, director of special projects for Orange County, read the list gathered from surveying 1,394 homes negatively impacted by the storm. She presented it at Monday morning's emergency meeting of the Orange...
President, Governor praise county's storm response Dave Rogers For The Record Twice in three afternoons last week, Orange County Judge John Gothia spent parts of some of the longest days of his life in made-for-TV lovefests. First it was the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott. He congratulated all the area leaders for getting citizens to evacuate early. Then it was the President of the United States, Donald Trump, celebrating how relatively smoothly things went for Orange County w...
City of Orange Fire Chief David Frenzel told this week's emergency city council meeting his department has had "an immense amount of calls reported to carbon monoxide" because of improper use of gasoline-powered generators. Fire Marshal John Bilbo updated that intel Wednesday morning: "We're still getting a lot of calls. Our preliminary thought is the death we had the other day is going to be called CO-related, but we won't know for sure until we get the report back." Tyrone...
Enthusiastic supporters of President Donald Trump wait in the rain across from the Orange County Expo Center on FM 1442 in hopes of seeing the motorcade as it passed. Law enforcement cleared the roadways before the motorcade arrived....
The Record Newspapers correctly predicted President Donald’s Trump to visit Orange Saturday, but blew it on the Ospreys. Photos from the Orange County Airport of two U.S. Marine Osprey Vertical Takeoff and Landing airplanes, each reportedly costing about $70 million to produce, and a green and white United States of America helicopter resembling the President’s Marine One showed up at the County Record offices Friday. At the time, a visit by the President had not been men...
Orange Mayor Larry Spears Jr. wasn't the only elected official in the county that didn't get a visit with President Donald Trump Saturday afternoon. Orange County Democratic Party Chairman Jack Smith didn't make it out to the President's private meeting with local and state leaders held at the Orange County Convention and Expo Center to review local damage from Hurricane Laura. Unlike Spears, who tested positive for COVID-19 on a rapid test given by the President's advance...
With Reporting from Mark Dunn President Donald Trump made a quick 90-minute stop in Orange County Saturday afternoon at the end of a tour of Hurricane Laura storm damage in Louisiana and Texas. The visit was anticipated and predicted by The Record Newspapers website a day earlier, but went unannounced by the White House except to local Republican Party officials and invited key civil and political personnel. His time in Texas' most southeastern city was strictly private,...
Orange County Judge John Gothia is lifting the Mandatory Evacuation Order as of 5 pm this evening, August 28, 2020 for all of Orange County. Citizens that come back to the county need to be self-sufficient due to the major power outages within the county. The mandatory curfew is still in effect from 9 pm to 5 am....
Orange County Sheriff Lane Mooney did not mince words. "We dodged a bullet on this one," he said as dawn broke over Southeast Texas Thursday morning a few hours after Hurricane Laura had blown through. "So far, we haven't had to do any rescues." Entergy Texas reported 35,000 power outages in Orange County as of 9 a.m.Orange Mayor Larry Spears Jr., reported a lot of trees down on power lines, blown out glass at restaurants on 16th Street and even some metal roofs blown off....
Residents in the Little Cypress area of Orange County, Texas work in the August heat to fill sand bags provided at the Precinct 1 location. According to the National Weather Center there is an increasing risk of dangerous storm surge, wind, and rainfall impacts from the upper Texas coast through the north-central Gulf Coast beginning on Wednesday. Residents in these areas should monitor the progress of Laura and ensure they have their hurricane plan in place, as storm surge...
Orange County and city officials aren’t getting caught by surprise this time. Orange County joined Jefferson County Monday evening in calling for a mandatory Tuesday evacuation of its residents ahead of the expected landfall Wednesday night of Hurricane Laura. It is tracking to come ashore as a Category 2 or Category 3 hurricane on the Texas-Louisiana border. “We’re trying to be proactive, get in front of this. I’d rather be wrong than have a bunch of people get hurt,...
Press Release #2 August 24, 2020 Orange County and City Officials are calling for a Mandatory Evacuation for all of Orange County at 6 am, Tuesday, August 25th, 2020. Citizens who cannot evacuate themselves can find transportation resources at either of the two embarkation sites in the county. Evacuees can arrive at location at 9 am, Tuesday, Aug 25th, 2020. Lamar State College Orange, 410 Front Street, Orange Texas 77630 Vidor Elementary, 400 Old Hwy 90 E, Vidor Texas 77662 If you are unable to get to one of the...
Orange Mayor Larry Spears, Jr. visits with city police officers Tuesday as he oversees the charter bus evacuation of nearly 100 residents. Spears thanked the entire city staff for its job in advance of Hurricane Laura's expected Wednesday night landfall on the Gulf Coast. "Everyone's doing an amazing job," he said....
President Donald Trump said he plans to visit Texas this weekend on a trip to survey damage from Hurricane Laura and he could make a stop in Orange. If so, it will come on the heels of a Thursday flyover tour and Orange City Hall press conference by all the Texas political stars, led by Gov. Greg Abbott and the state's U.S. Senators, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz. They were all in the area to see first-hand the damage in their state caused by Hurricane Laura, which saved its...
Lamar State College Orange announced late Friday it was joining east Orange county's public school districts in cancelling school until at least Sept. 7 because of damage caused by Hurricane Laura. The school districts include Bridge City, Orangefield, Little Cypress-Mauriceville and West Orange-Cove. They and the college all received wind damage but the uncertainty about when electrical service may return to the schools' neighborhoods and buildings is the biggest unknown....
After four years of dithering over a repair and just more than a year after it finally got fixed, the Orange County Courthouse has lost its marble again. It's time to check the warranty. Gusts of as much as 100 mph from Hurricane Laura caused a goodly chunk of the $200,000 repair to crash from the top of the three-story facade over the courthouse's main entrance at the end of Orange's Main Street. No one was injured by the falling rock, and not just because Hurricane Laura...
Cars, truck and vans from Orange County hit the road Tuesday morning in response to a mandatory evacuation order to flee the expected path of Hurricane Laura. Traffic was steady heading north to East Texas and west to the Hill Country, but Texas Department of Transportation had logged no reports of major traffic tie-ups as of noon Tuesday. The City of Orange Tuesday morning dispatched seven chartered buses from a debarkation station at Lamar State College Orange. The buses...
Orange County Emergency Management Press Release #1 August 24, 2020 - Orange County Judge John Gothia issued a Disaster Declaration for Orange County today. (see attached) - County and City Officials are recommending a voluntary evacuation for all of Orange County and all of its Municipalities due to the uncertainty of Hurricane Marco and Hurricane Laura's path. - At this time Officials are issuing a mandatory evacuation FOR nursing homes ONLY. - There is NOT a mandatory...
What’s one of the biggest must-have items as hardy Orange County residents await the arrival of likely Hurricane Laura? Generators. Monday afternoon, there wasn’t one to be found in town. The folks at Honda of Orange are meeting the demand in a big way. “I’ve got 115 generators arriving Tuesday,” owner Mark Frey said Monday afternoon. “I’m not sure how many will be available, though. It depends on how many we pre-sell.” Frey estimated he had already written up sales tickets f...
Orange County Emergency Management's information regarding Sand Bags for preparations of tropical system. Sand and bags are currently available at: Precinct 1 County Maintenance barn located on North Highway 87 at North Teal Road Precinct 2 located on 11897 State Highway 62 in Mauriceville, directly across from Market Basket on Highway 62 Precinct 3 County Maintenance barn located on 2502 West Roundbunch Road Precinct 4 County Maintenance barn located on 375 Claiborne Street...
County Judge John Gothia has issued a Disaster Declaration for Orange County and joined cities in calling for a voluntary evacuation for Orange County residents in response to the possibility of widespread damage posed by Tropical Storms Marco and Laura. Officials are calling for a mandatory evacuation of the county's nursing homes at this point. Laura, the second of two tropical cyclones active in the Carribean and Gulf of Mexico this week, is causing the most worry. As of mi...
The city of Bridge City declared a state of disaster Monday, because of an imminent threat of widespread damage from Tropical Storms Marcos and Laura....
