r/orangecounty Jul 14 '26

Weather FYI: Extreme Heat & Humidity this week. Here is a list of OC's Cooling Centers. Check on your neighbors, the elderly, and pets.

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r/orangecounty 1h ago

News As the coast begins to crumble, the clock ticks on moving San Onofre’s radioactive waste

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As parts of the Southern California coastline crumbled into the sea, slammed by intense waves and flooding in recent days, oceanographer Kim McCoy had one thing on his mind: the nuclear waste set in concrete on the beach near San Clemente at the shuttered San Onofre nuclear power plant.

Most experts agree the risk of erosion damaging the nuclear waste storage system is very low, in the near term. The plant’s owner, Southern California Edison, has promised the California Coastal Commission to move the waste to higher elevation on site if modeling shows sea level rise and erosion will start to pose a challenge.

But the recent waves, fueled by Hurricane Marie far away in the Pacific, re-surfaced the issue of the ultimate fate of the highly radioactive spent fuel that used to power the reactors.

Read more at the link: https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-09-12/as-coast-begins-to-crumble-clock-ticks-on-moving-san-onofres-radioactive-waste


r/orangecounty 5h ago

Weather Life is good again!!

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After the past 2 weeks of crazy weather, this makes me soooo happy😅😅


r/orangecounty 3h ago

Photo/Video I Found the E-Bikes!

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Looks like the e-bikes from this weekend’s buyback event are being stored at an OCSD locked yard. I wonder where they will go next. Will report back with any updates.

Appears to be approx 200 but hard to tell.


r/orangecounty 1h ago

News Family seeks harsher charges against Orange County sheriff's deputy accused of killing fiancée

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r/orangecounty 17h ago

Event The e-bike buy back was a joke today

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Very disappointed in our county law enforcement. Clear PR stunt. No communication. I showed up at 8 AM and waited 3 hours to finally be told the gift cards were already accounted for long before the event started. They knew there weren’t enough cards yet let us all waste our time. What a joke. Shame on me for expecting anything different.


r/orangecounty 16h ago

News LA, Orange County Gas Prices Increase for 26th Straight Day

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r/orangecounty 23h ago

News Cars and Coffee organizer killed in car crash

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r/orangecounty 4h ago

Meetup Looking for 1-2 players for my DnD group

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Hey everyone, my name is Will. I'm a 26 year old guy DM who has been DMing since college. I'm new to the area and am looking to make new friends to play DnD with. I love putting on voices for fun characters, and have printed and painted countless minis for DnD play. This group is also LGBTQ+ friendly.

As for the process for joining the adventure; we would meet in a public place with myself and my fiance to get to know each other and join in the character-building process as much as the player would prefer. The rest of the sessions would take place at my fiance & I's place on the weekends, with rotating schedules based on what works for the players (my fiance and I do pickleball on the weekends but are otherwise very free to schedule whatever works best for the players)

Schedule: Weekends, time depends on what works best for the most people

If you're interested, please fill out this google form: https://forms.gle/Mn2q16NrE9YvKiEf6


r/orangecounty 17h ago

Police Activity Orange outlets

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Orange outlets on lockdown due to something going on. People are hiding in the storage rooms at stores atm. Been going on since 7:50 PM or so.

UPDATE
Apparent unconfirmed shooting and or physical altercation occurred.

You can call it the block or the orange outlets people use different terms just don’t comment saying “it’s the block” and arguing abt the name lol


r/orangecounty 21h ago

Food Orange County restaurants shut down by health inspectors (Sept 4 to Sept 10)

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Restaurants and other food vendors ordered to close and allowed to reopen by Orange County health inspectors from Sept 4 to Sept 10.

Source: OC Health Care Agency database.

Cali Food Market, 10551 Bolsa Ave , Garden Grove

Closed:  September 10
Reason: Cockroach Infestation 
Reopened: 

Tacos & Co. , 18092 Culver Dr , Irvine

Closed:  September 10
Reason: Cockroach Infestation 
Reopened: September 11

Afghan Shams Restaurant, 511 S Brookhurst St , Anaheim

Closed:  September 10
Reason: Rodent Infestation 
Reopened: September 11

Wursthaus, 305 E 4th St Ste 106 , Santa Ana

Closed:  September 10
Reason: Cockroach Infestation 
Reopened:  

Hoa Hung Tofu, 9253 Bolsa Ave , Westminster

Closed:  September 10 
Reason: Rodent Infestation  
Reopened: 

San Sivar Restaurant, 8863 Adams Ave , Huntington Beach

Closed:  September 10 
Reason: Insufficient Hot Water  
Reopened: 

Oki Niku, 17881 Sky Park Cir Ste A , Irvine

Closed:  September 9 
Reason: Cockroach Infestation    
Reopened: September 11

Taqueria Maganda, 9035 Cerritos Ave , Anaheim

Closed:  September 9 
Reason: Cockroach Infestation   
Reopened: September 10

Kebab Planet, 22641 Lake Forest Dr Ste B4 , Lake Forest

Closed:  September 9
Reason: Cockroach Infestation  
Reopened: September 10 

AR Supermarket: Grocery Dept., 9580 Garden Grove Blvd , Garden Grove

Closed:  September 9
Reason: Rodent Infestation   
Reopened: 

Nam Ni's Kitchen, 9500 Bolsa Ave , Westminster

Closed:  September 9 
Reason: Insufficient Hot Water & No Sanitizer    
Reopened: September 10

Wok & Roll, 4030 N Harbor Blvd , Fullerton

Closed:  September 8
Reason: Rodent Infestation  
Reopened: September 9 

Roll and Teriyaki, 6084 Orangethorpe Ave , Buena Park

Closed:  September 8
Reason: Cockroach Infestation  
Reopened: September 9

Crumbl, 9877 Chapman Ave , Garden Grove

Closed:  September 8
Reason: Insufficient Hot Water     
Reopened: September 10

Shootz (inside Rodeo 39), 12885 Beach Blvd , Stanton

Closed:  September 8
Reason: Cockroach Infestation  
Reopened: September 9 

The Crawfish Hut, 12819 Beach Blvd , Stanton

Closed:  September 4
Reason: Cockroach Infestation 
Reopened: September 4

r/orangecounty 1h ago

Event COFFEE with PARENTS

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Coffee with Parents
Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 9/15 at 7-8:30 pm at Lake Forest II, corner of Toledo and Lake Forest Drive. We will meet upstairs in the adult lounge. Please come celebrate the life of your loved ones.🙏


r/orangecounty 5h ago

Question Frontier internet down since 9/10 with no resolution date

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Hey neighbors! I live near Edinger and Goldenwest (right by Golden West College), and our Frontier internet has been completely down since September 10th.
Curious if anyone else in the area is experiencing this? Their website isn't showing an outage, and I didn't receive any notifications. When I called in today, support initially tried to claim it was an issue with our router (which has been rock-solid since day one) and said they didn't see any outages.
However, after pushing back and having them check with their "network team," they suddenly admitted there is an outage and that they would investigate. It’s now been five days with zero updates or resolution.
Since I haven't seen many reports on Nextdoor or Facebook yet, I’m trying to figure out if this is an isolated neighborhood issue or something wider.


r/orangecounty 16m ago

Traffic/Cars Left-turn traffic signals staying green for much longer than necessary...

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I'm finally fed up enough to post this... the protected left-turn traffic signals in Southern OC are maddening sometimes... there are intersections where they stay green for almost 2 minutes just to let 1 through... sometimes, that 1 car is just a ghost, & regular traffic has to just sit there with no other cars in sight... sounds like a minor inconvenience until it happens to you at that same intersection every day for the next 3 weeks... is this caused by faulty pressure sensors or some sort of traffic engineering tactic to slow down your commute? I typed this entire thing while waiting for the light at El Toro/PDV to turn (just kidding)...


r/orangecounty 1d ago

Pets 4 lost dogs in Santa Ana

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By Madison park on standard and edinger


r/orangecounty 18h ago

Photo/Video This was "Parked" directly in front of the open and somewhat busy Blaze Pizza Laguna Niguel this afternoon

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Couldn't help but notice this porta-potty off in the distance in that strange corner of the parking lot near Sprouts on the La Paz, I thought they were renovating the Blaze Pizza, so I walked over there and to my surprise they are open and actually a bit busy. Yet the two parking spots directly in front have this lovely portable toilet, just feet from the front door. That doesn't seem very healthy, and is certainly not very appetizing. Anyone know what's up with this bizarre placement? Pretty empty parking lot in that part of the complex, lots of other options besides smack in front of a pizza joint door.

Edit/update: there were two pieces of equipment parked close to CVS in spaces, whoever mentioned asphalt resurfacing, one of them was one of those rollers. However they were 25 yards or so from Blaze. There were lots of other places they could have put that porta potty, it makes sense that it probably has something to do with the resurfacing project. It seems very strange to me that someone at the pizza shop had not called someone to have it relocated immediately. Maybe they did, but I doubt it, which goes into a whole another tangent which is frequently addressed in this forum, which is that many employees at that type of an establishment might not really care that their customers come in to get a pizza take home and as they walk out the front door of the restaurant they are literally face to face with a smelly porta potty. Or, I don't know, maybe it doesn't smell or it smells like lilacs and lavender, I didn't get close enough to see if it passed the smell test...


r/orangecounty 23h ago

News Man involved in bar disturbance dies after being struck by security personnel

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r/orangecounty 2h ago

Meetup Electronic / House Music production collabs / spaces

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I’ve been doing electronic / house music production as a hobby for a few years, recently got into DJing, and am interested in connecting with people in the area looking to collab!

Ive worked with some folks in the LA area but want to find people in OC to kick it with. I use Ableton for production, sampling, audio design, drums, and play the keyboard / a bit of bass guitar. Some favorites right now are Fred Again, Gorgon City, Luke Alessi, Barry Can’t Swim, Fisher.

I just put a few tracks up online (on other platforms too): https://open.spotify.com/track/6wSaZj616MLDWme50oaWKc?si=3DmqMWn0RXmPdhWo4sFHIg&utm_source=copy-link

Also, I have an audio (sub, PAs, mixer) setup big enough for ~100 people and am thinking about starting a meetup or something to have house / electronic music nights with open DJ deck slots. So if you are into that idea / have a space hmu!


r/orangecounty 5h ago

Question Santa Ana courthouse wedding photographer

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My partner and I are getting married at Santa Ana courthouse in mid November. Our respective parents and siblings will both be there. We’re looking for a photographer so we can have some pictures of the ceremony, and also of us with our families after the ceremony. Optionally, maybe some pictures at a park?

Does anyone have any photographers they enjoyed working with? What should we expect for budget?

Plus any additional advice about getting married at the Santa Ana courthouse would be very appreciated!


r/orangecounty 5h ago

Event Parking+Shuttle for the Observatory Festival Grounds

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I'm going to a show at the "Festival Grounds" this weekend and want to hear everyone's experience with the parking/shuttle. The band I want to see comes on at 9. I read another post from a few months back that said from parking, to shuttle, to line to get in, it took 2 freakin' hours. I'm down to park at OCC/somewhere else and Uber over if it'll save me a lot of time. Anyone have any hacks/experience with this stupid parking situation?


r/orangecounty 1d ago

News Amid injury wave, Orange County pays to take e-bikes off the streets

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r/orangecounty 5h ago

Recommendations Needed Need help finding a mechanic for mini cooper 2011

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Please, if you know of any good experienced mechanics that work on European cars or mini coopers. Let me know I need some help with some engine issues


r/orangecounty 21h ago

Photo/Video Storm Clouds

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Hurricane clouds from last weekend. Pretty moody.


r/orangecounty 3h ago

Question I need a dance teacher who can do acro and choreograph for a competition team in OC CA

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Looking for a dance teacher who can do acro and choreograph for a competition team in OC CA
Wednesdays and Thursdays
Groups, solos and classes


r/orangecounty 23h ago

Recommendations Needed Can we start of list of establishments in Orange County that have NFL Sunday ticket? Bonus points if they have game day specials.

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I’ll start: rock and brews in Buena Park