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Weather: A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 8am, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm between 8am and 2pm, then showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. High near 84. Very windy, with a southwest wind 20 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 36 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. Tuesday Night Showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 2am. Low around 77. Windy, with a southwest wind around 22 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
- 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:
In Court: The resumption of a sentencing hearing is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. before Circuit Judge Terence Perkins in Courtroom 401 at the Flagler County Courthouse in the case of Brendan Depa, the former Matanzas High School special needs student accused of assaulting a paraprofessional, in an incident recorded on video. The first part of the sentencing hearing took place on May 1. Depa tendered an open plea in late October, leaving the judge wide discretion to sentence him either as an adult or as a youthful offender. See: “Despite Severe Autism, Judge Finds Depa, Ex-Matanzas High Student, Competent to Be Tried for Assault on Aide,” “Brendan Depa’s Mother Tells Her Son’s Story,” and “The Brendan Depa I Have Come To Know.” See also:
- Brendan Depa’s Sentencing Will Not Resume Until Aug. 6, Giving Defense Time to Recover from Bad Day
- At Brendan Depa Sentencing, Prisons’ Mental Health Chief Draws Bizarrely Rosy Picture of Services Awaiting Him
- Joan Naydich, Brendan Depa’s Victim of Beating, Details How ‘Everything Was Taken Away’ from Her
- Chief Engert: How Flagler County Jail Stepped Up to Ensure Brendan Depa’s Continuing Education
- Lawsuit Blames Flagler Schools’ Failure to Address Brendan Depa’s Known Needs and Risks Before Attack on Aide
Flagler Beach’s Planning and Architectural Review Board meets at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall, 105 S 2nd Street. For agendas and minutes, go here. The board today will review a revised height ordinance.
The Palm Coast City Council meets at 6 p.m. at City Hall. For agendas, minutes, and audio access to the meetings, go here. For meeting agendas, audio and video, go here.
The Bunnell Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board meets at 6 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. The board consists of Carl Lilavois, Chair; Manuel Madaleno, Nealon Joseph, Gary Masten and Lyn Lafferty.
The Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club meets at 5 p.m. at the library, 315 South Seventh Street, Flagler Beach.
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy, 8 p.m. at Cinematique Theater, 242 South Beach Street, Daytona Beach. General admission is $8.50. Every Tuesday and on the first Saturday of every month the Random Acts of Insanity Comedy Improv Troupe specializes in performing fast-paced improvised comedy.
In Coming Days: Sept. 4: “An Evening with Shaun Tomson” 5 p.m. at the News-Journal Center, 221 N. Beach Street in Daytona Beach. World champion surfer, documentarian and best-selling author Shaun Tomson will be the keynote speaker. The event includes a showing of the classic 2008 surf film “Bustin’ Down the Door.” Tomson, whose book “The Code: The Power of ‘I Will’” explores faith, courage, creativity and determination, has become an in-demand motivational speaker. He will speak in advance of the film and will take part in a Q&A after the showing. Sept. 19: Sheriff's Summit to Protect and Serve Seniors, 3 to 5 p.m. at the Sheriff's Operations Center, 2101 Commerce Pkwy, Bunnell. Participants will benefit from a presentation about frequent scams and frauds, have access to free document shredding and paramedicine, and will get a tour of the Sheriff's Office Museum. The event is free to the public. Sept. 19: 988 Suicide Prevention Walk: 5:30 at Wadsworth Park, 2200 Moody Blvd., Flagler Beach. The Rotary Club of Flagler Beach will host an Awareness Walk to promote the 988 National Suicide Crisis Hotline at 6:00 p.m. on September 19, 2024. Participants will walk from Wadsworth Park in Flagler Beach, over the Rt. 100 bridge to Veterans Park where we will gather for a brief ceremony. Anyone wishing to participate should arrive at Wadsworth Park at 5:30 pm. After a brief welcome, the walk will begin at 6 p.m. Participants are encouraged, if possible, to wear purple and/or teal, the colors of suicide prevention awareness. Advanced registration is not required. All are welcome at this cost-free event that aims to bring the community together to raise awareness about the importance of mental health and the critical resources available through the 988 hotline. Sept. 25: The Palm Coast Tiger Bay Club presents a candidate forum ahead of the Nov. 5 general election, Sept. 25, 5 to 8 p.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE. The forum will feature the candidates in three runoff elections for mayor and Palm Coast City Council seats. The forum is free and open to the public, and will be simulcast on WNZF and live-streamed on FlaglerLive, among other media sources. |
Notably: The site is called Nukemap. You can access it here. When I do, it brings up Orlando. I don;t know if it’s because the website is reading my IP address or if Nukemap is set to Orlando getting blown off the map by default. Nukemap is a nuclear bomb simulator. You choose any city you like, including Palm Coast. Then you select the kind of warhead you want to drop on the city–the yield, in kilotons or megatons. Let’s take the 15-kiloton Little Boy type of bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima as an example. You can then choose whether you want an airburst, which causes more damage but limits radioactive waste in the air, or a surface burst, which limits damage but throws up a bigger radioactive cloud. You can click the box to give you an idea of casualties. You can click the box about radioactive fallout. Then you detonate. The result is a basic map of concentric circles of damage. The bomb would have been dropped on the C Section, as this simulation has it (not my choice, but whatever.) The result is surprisingly slight: 3,570 fatalities, 7,560 injuries, with the fireball extending to a radius of just 198 meters and the heavy blast damage to less than a quarter of a mile. The radiation radius takes in the whole C Section, and the moderate blast damage goes out almost 9 kilometers, or about 5 miles, past Palm Coast Parkway but not to State Road 100, and to U.S. 1, but not past it. The Hammock Beach Resort would also be toast. The thermal radiation radius, where everyone would get third degree bruins and die, but in a longer time stretch, would go out to the F Section and part of the barrier island. A Nagasaki-size bombs would up the casualties to 3,890. A 9 megaton warhead, the kind currently arming American ICBMs, would wipe out half of Palm Coast’s population and reach to St. Augustine and Ormond Beach. I imagine the simulator is designed to scare the hell out of us, and to some extent it does. But I find it not effective enough, and oddly understated. Those casualty figures seem low, and the blast zones smaller than I’d have imagined unless the megatonnage is in play. Oddly, when I dropped another Little Boy on Hiroshima, the simulator showed zero casualties. It had to be refreshed. Then came the casualties: similar to the numbers from the original bombing: close to 100,000 from the blast, 147,000 more injuries. A Hiroshima-sized bomb On Manhattan? 305,000 and 578,000. A thermonuclear warhead? 3.6 million dead, 3.2 million injuries. That’s more along the lines of the likely scenarios, though even those figures seem low–nothing like those in, say, The Fate of the Earth’s scenario of a bomb on Manhattan. Here. Try for yourself.
—P.T.
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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
Flagler County Commission Morning Meeting
Beverly Beach Town Commission meeting
Nar-Anon Family Group
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And to think, just a few months prior, Manhattan Project chief General Leslie Groves had assured the public and Congress that death by radiation poisoning was “a very pleasant way to die.”
–From Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario (2024).
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Larry says
Am I wrong? Didn’t Flagler Beach pas a bill, initiative whatever to keep building heights to 3 story’s?
Only to be changed by a vote from residents?