Orange County received a grant from the Rebuild Texas Fund this week that will be used to help the county be better prepared when a severe weather event occurs. The $82,139 grant has been used to purchase special sandbag filling machines.
Clark Slacum who oversees the county’s Road and Bridge Department believes the five sandbag machines will greatly facilitate the filling of sandbags. He plans to have one of the machines at each of the four precinct barns in the county and an additional one in Mauriceville.
Each machine has four chutes that will allow four lines of people filling sandbags to be served simultaneously. There is even a battery powered sewing machine that efficiently sows the bags up instead of the slow method of using twist ties to seal the bags. “This grant should make at least our sandbag operations go much much faster and more efficiently,” Slacum said.
The Rebuild Texas Fund was launched days after Harvey devastated so many of the communities in Texas. Special Projects Coordinator Michelle Tubbleville with Emergency Management Office applied for the grant that resulted in the county receiving the sandbag filling machines.
-Dan Perrine, KOGT-
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