Jefferson County Judge Jeff Branick and Hardin County Judge Wayne McDaniel have issued disaster declarations in their counites. In both counties, all county offices will be open today. Disaster declarations have also been issued in Orange, Jasper, and Liberty counites.
Port Arthur Mayor Thurman Bartie is calling for a voluntary evacuation for residents of Sabine Pass and Pleasure Island.
Entergy-Texas crews are on standby for possible outages along the Southeast Texas area.
Sandbags are available at county precinct barns in Southeast Texas. In Jefferson County, you can go to the Precinct 4 barn on Boyt Road. You will have to fill your own sandbags,
Lamar University in Beaumont, LIT, Lamar State College-Port Arthur, and Lamar State College-Orange will all be closed today.
All activities at BISD, Nederland, Hardin-Jefferson, Port Neches-Groves, Port Arthur ISD, Hamshire-Fannett, and Vidor will not take place today.
Groves garbage pickup for today will take place tomorrow.