Wednesday - Important Openings County By County

Important Quick Notes:

• First Baptist Church in Kribyville on West Main, FEMA has opened a POD that is handing out Ice and MREs (food) to Southeast Texans.
• Two pods for Orange are now located at Bridge City Intermediate School off of Roundbunch and at First Baptist Chuch on North Main in Vidor.
• A third pod will be opened later in the day by Southeast Texas Emergency Management

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Here is a list of placed that are open in the area. We will be updating this throughout the day, county by county:

Jefferson County Openings:

GAS STATIONS:

• Shell Gas Station at Liberty and MLK
• White Tire Supply in downtown Beaumont
• Johnson's in Beaumont (Old Calder behind Taco Bell and Black-Eyed-Pea)

BANKS:

• Neches Federal Credit Union  - 776 Magnolia Branch in Port Neches from 9am-5pm
• Neches Federal Credit Union  - On Downlen in Beaumont will open Thursday, 9/18
• Community Bank Nederland  
• Community Bank Beaumont - Delaware at Dowlen
• MOFCU on Major at Delaware (since Monday) from 9 to 5. 
• MOFCU says the Jasper branch has been opened since Monday
• DuPont Goodrich FCU opened two offices
• Lumberton - 695 N Main Jasper - 1061 S Wheeler
• Capital One Bank Beaumont Main office, 510 Park St.
• Capital One Bank Dowlen Drive-Up, 3950 N. Dowlen Road
• Capital One Bank Northway, 3738 N. 16^th St.
• Capital One Bank Vidor, 1255 Main St.
• .

Compass Bank - following locations

Branches:

Beaumont - 700 Calder, downtown
Beaumont - Dowlen-Delaware
Buna
Jasper Main
Jasper Wal-Mart
Lumberton Main
San Augustine
Silsbee Wal-Mart

Broaddus

STORES:

• Kroger on Dowlen Beaumont
• Sams Club in Beaumont
• HEB on Dowlen Beaumont
• CVS on Dowlen
• Walgreens Dowlen/Folsom Will be open from 9-5
• Mannings on Dowlen  - offering free copies and fax services for any insurance/fema related business
• Market Basket Hwy 105 and 96 - North Beaumont, plenty of Ice, 20 people in at a time.
• Market Basket on Phelan scheduled to open at Noon until 5pm AND the Drive-Thru pharmacy is also opened...the store will not allow more than 15 people in the storm at a time.
  RESTAURANTS:
• Rao's is open on Dowlen Road
• Port Arthur at Gillam Circle - Powerade and MREs are being handed out
• Sartins West - 6680 Calder
• Madison's on Dowlen is open
• Salvation Army mobile canteens are being deployed to the area, however that help is NOT available at this time. (Mon 1pm 9/15)
  The Salvation Army does NOT have water, ice, groceries or shelter for distribution at this time.

If you know of any openings, then please report them to our newsroom or add them to the bottom of this story in our comments box.

Hardin County Openings:

GAS STATIONS:

• There is plenty of gas in Lumberton, all but one station is open on Main St. and
  most have plenty of ice and other supplies as well.
  

STORES:

• Brookshire Brothers in Kountze is open.
• HEB in Lumberton has groceries and gas.
• Wal-Mart in Lumbeton open 9-5p
• Orange County Building Materials
• Ace Hardware
• Market Basket

RESTAURANTS:

• Taco Bell, Novroskys, Crazy Jose's, Dippity's, Southern Maid, Kotoyama's, Raphael's,
  Happy Donuts, Chicken Express, Katfish Kitchen, McDonald's, Whataburger at 10am
  today, Subway, Waffle House.
  

If you know of any openings, then please report them to our newsroom or add them to the bottom of this story in our comments box.

Orange County Openings:

FEMA PODS

• The location at Conn's has moved. The two pods for Orange are now located at Bridge City Intermediate School off of Roundbunch and at First Baptist Chuch on North Main in Vidor.

GAS STATIONS:

• I-10 and HWY 87 (South of Interstate) - the one with the Wendy's and a Subway inside of it...
• Chevron at I-10 and 23rd
• Pilot Hwy 62 and I-10 

BANKS:

• Community Bank - Vidor
• Wells Fargo Bank in Orange is open from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm (M-F)

STORES:

• Orange - McCoy's Building Supply (open until 6PM or until the community is served)
•  The Red Cross is open for business
• Child's Ace Hardware in Orange

RESTAURANTS:

• Salvation Army has opened a soup kitchen in Bridge City off of Round Bunch.
• Salvation Army has opened a soup kitchen in Vidor at First Baptist Church
• Domino's On Hwy 87 in Mauriceville

Other Openings:

 - Community Banks in Newton, Buna, Kirbyville and Jasper