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Weather: A slight chance of thunderstorms. A chance of showers in the morning, then showers likely in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. East winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent. Friday Night: Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
- Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
- Drought conditions here. (What is the Keetch-Byram drought index?).
- Check today’s tides in Flagler Beach here.
- tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.
Today at a Glance:
Free For All Fridays with Host David Ayres, an hour-long public affairs radio show featuring local newsmakers, personalities, public health updates and the occasional surprise guest, starts a little after 9 a.m. after FlaglerLive Editor Pierre Tristam’s Reality Check. Today’s guests: Palm Coast Mayor David Alfin, Flagler Beach City Manager Dale Martin and Flagler County Commission Chair Andy Dance, who will discuss the much-reduced state appropriations they are receiving than the amounts they expected. See previous podcasts here. On WNZF at 94.9 FM and 1550 AM.
Flagler and Florida Unemployment Numbers Released: The state’s Commerce Department released the previous month’s preliminary unemployment numbers for Florida and its 67 counties, at 10 a.m. See the data releases page here.
The Blue 24 Forum, a discussion group organized by local Democrats, meets at 12:15 p.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE. Come and add your voice to local, state and national political issues.
The St. Augustine Music Festival, a series of free concerts in the historic Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine. The concerts take place Friday to Sunday at 7:30 p.m. with a different performance each evening. 38 Cathedral Place, St. Augustine. 904-342-5175 www.staugustinemusicfestival.org.
 Keep Their Lights On Over the Holidays: Flagler Cares, the social service non-profit celebrating its 10th anniversary, is marking the occasion with a fund-raiser to "Keep the Holiday Lights On" by encouraging people to sponsor one or more struggling household's electric bill for a month over the Christmas season. Each sponsorship amounts to $100 donation, with every cent going toward payment of a local power bill. See the donation page here. Every time another household is sponsored, a light goes on on top of a house at Flagler Cares' fundraising page. The goal of the fun-raiser, which Flagler Cares would happily exceed, is to support at least 100 families (10 households for each of the 10 years that Flagler Cares has been in existence). Flagler Cares will start taking applications for the utility fund later this month. Because of its existing programs, the organization already has procedures in place to vet people for this type of assistance, ensuring that only the needy qualify. |
In medias res: From the Miami Herald in mid-May: “Sea levels are rising, swamping roads and homes in South Florida. And it’s picked up the pace in recent years. In the last 80 years, sea level rise has risen about a foot, with 8 inches of that total in the last 30 years. […] According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s best estimates, that pace is expected to speed up — dramatically. It took about 80 years for the first foot. The second one will only take 30 years. The next, 20 years. And Florida could see the next foot in merely a decade after that. […] That’s according to NOAA’s “intermediate-high” projection of sea level rise. The agency created a range of predictions — low, intermediate-low, intermediate, intermediate-high and high — to estimate what sea level rise could look like in places like Florida. So far, scientists have found that we’re trending toward the high end of those predictions. […] Those are the same predictions used by South Florida governments when deciding how high to build new developments. But after a new bill signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis this year, local governments hoping for state money for sea rise projects have to only consider the intermediate-low and intermediate scenarios, a downgrade from previous legislation that asked them to consider intermediate-low and intermediate-high scenarios.” Quick, get your beachfront property in the P-Section.
—P.T.
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Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Scenic A1A Pride Meeting
Blue 24 Forum
Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock
Flagler County’s Cold-Weather Shelter Opens
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Al-Anon Family Groups
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But we who live today can only wonder; a rising sea could write a different history.
–From Rachel Carson’s The Edge of the Sea (1955).
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Jim says
I never have expected “Justice” Thomas to have any ethical or moral concerns about all the bribes (call them what you want) he has received. Very few thieves and criminals have remorse. They just want to get away with the crime. What really upsets and disappoints me is the the Chief Justice (Roberts) has repeatedly declined to address the issue and claims the court polices itself. Al Capone would have done a better job of policing Chicago than this court is doing!
And the Republicans – the party that used to claim they were for Law and Order, stanchly defend Thomas (and Alito) on all of it. Their very transparent reasoning is that they want the court to be very right wing in their decisions and have no issues with the ethics of the right wing justices. I wonder what they would say if a liberal justice had a $278k loan on their RV forgiven?
This is the result of the lack of any moral compass among the Republicans who want to get religion in the government, ban transgenders from everything and everywhere, get books out of schools, cry about the border (but do nothing), contain some of the most despicable politicians in history (Trump, Gaetz, MTG, Boebert, Cruz, Hawley, Graham, Ron Johnson, Stefanik, Jim Jordan, Paul Gosar, Mitch McConnell, and Mike Johnson). I just hope we’ll start waking up and do something about this in November. It didn’t happen overnight and we can’t fix it overnight but this is a good time and place to start.