The Sabine River Authority working with five counties in Southeast Texas has produced a website for a one-stop source during threatening weather conditions. The Regional Alerting Information Network or RAIN pulls together a network of stream gauging stations, weather service forecasts, and travel information for Orange, Newton, Jasper, Hardin, and Jefferson Counties.
The consolidation of information into a useful website is promised to be an excellent tool for the Emergency Management Offices in the five counties to advise the public of rising water conditions and possible flood situations. The formal introduction of RAIN was done Thursday morning at the Sabine River Authority in Orange.
In attendance were State Senator Robert Nichols (looking at the new site), State Representatives Dade Phelan and James White, and officials from all five counties. Representing Orange County were County Commissioners Johnny Trahan and Barry Burton accompanied by Emergency Management Coordinator Joel Ardoin.
Both Nichols and Phelan said they believe the RAIN website will be extremely useful to emergency management officials and to citizens in advance of severe weather conditions. They appreciated the Sabine River Authority stepping up and producing the website for all the local communities.
The RAIN website can be viewed at www.setexasrain.org on the internet. Once on the website the user can check on the status for any of the twenty monitoring sites.
The local sites near Orange are at Navy Pier on the Sabine River in Orange, Cow Bayou near Mauriceville, the Saltwater Barrier on the Neches River, and the Sabine River near Ruliff close to Deweyville. Other gauges are being installed on Adams Bayou at Martin Luther King Junior Drive and at MacArthur Drive, on Cow Bayou at FM 1442 and Highway 87, and on Cole Creek at Interstate 10.
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