{"id":15127,"date":"2010-06-23T17:10:58","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T22:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=15127"},"modified":"2010-06-24T17:52:51","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T22:52:51","slug":"smith-county-issues-disaster-declaration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=15127","title":{"rendered":"Smith County Issues Disaster Declaration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=15152\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15152\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2010\/06\/Flash-Flooding1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Flash Flooding\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-15152\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTYLER &#8212; Smith County Judge Joel Baker has issued a \u201cDeclaration of Disaster\u201d due to excessive amounts of rainfall that occurred June 9-10.  \u201cThe recent storms and flooding have taken a toll on Smith County residents. The road situations in Smith County have been affected to the extent that some homes have limited access due to impassable roads,\u201d Baker said. Officials say County Roads 1113, 1130, 1131 and 1141 will remain closed for a prolonged period of time.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeclaring a local disaster allows Smith County to begin the process of applying for reimbursement funds for damaged roads and bridges from the Texas Department of Rural Affairs,\u201d Smith County Emergency Services Coordinator Jim Seaton said.  The Smith County Fire Marshall\u2019s Office is reporting $174,350 of damage to county roadways.  Officials say the Smith County Road and Bridge department is working to repair water damaged roads as quickly as possible.  You&#8217;re asked to continue to seek alternate routes around flood damaged roads and notify the Road and Bridge department of any hazardous conditions at 903-590-4801.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Smith County Judge Joel Baker has issued a \u201cDeclaration of Disaster\u201d due to excessive amounts of rainfall that occurred June 9-10. \u201cThe recent storms and flooding have taken a toll on Smith County residents. The road situations in Smith County have been affected to the extent that some homes have limited access due &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=15127\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smith County Issues Disaster Declaration<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-05 23:46:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15127"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15464,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15127\/revisions\/15464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}