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Weather: Sunny, with a high near 55. Wind chill values as low as 23 early. Breezy, with a north wind 10 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph. Tuesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 39. Northwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
- 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 Daytona Beach (a few minutes off from Flagler Beach) here.
- Tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.
Today at a Glance:
The Cold-Weather Shelter known as the Sheltering Tree, opens:The shelter opens at Church on the Rock at 2200 North State Street in Bunnell as the overnight temperature is expected to fall to 40 or below. It will open from 5 p.m. to 8 a.m. The shelter is open to the homeless and to the nearly-homeless: anyone who is struggling to pay a utility bill or lacks heat or shelter and needs a safe, secure place for the night. The shelter will serve dinner and breakfast. Call 386-437-3258, extension 105 for more information. Flagler County Transportation offers free bus rides from pick up points in the county, starting at 3 p.m., at the following locations and times:
- Dollar General at Publix Town Center, 3:30 p.m.
- Near the McDonald’s at Old Kings Road South and State Road 100, 4 p.m.
- Dollar Tree by Carrabba’s and Walmart, 4:30 p.m.
- Palm Coast Main Branch Library, 4:45 p.m.
Also: - Dollar General at County Road 305 and Canal Avenue in Daytona North, 4 p.m.
- Bunnell Free Clinic, 4:30 p.m.
- First United Methodist Church in Bunnell, 4:30 p.m.
The shelter is run by volunteers of the Sheltering Tree, a non-profit under the umbrella of the Flagler County Family Assistance Center, is a non-denominational civic organization. The Sheltering Tree is in need of donations. See the most needed items here, and to contribute cash, donate here or go to the Donate button at this page.
Joint Veterans Day Ceremony and Parade: The Flagler County Board of County Commissioners, the City of Bunnell, and the City of Palm Coast invite residents to gather for a blended Veterans Day Ceremony at 10 a.m. Monday, November 11, at the historic Coquina City Hall in Bunnell. The day’s events will kick off with the 2nd Annual Veterans Parade to honor the men and women who bravely served in the country’s military. The parade will travel east on Moody Boulevard and conclude at the Government Services Building where the traditional ceremony will begin. Retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Dave Freeman – who is also Chief of Operations for Flagler Schools – will be the grand marshal of the parade and will be the keynote speaker at the ceremony.
Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry: Flagler Beach United Methodist Church‘s food pantry is open today from 9:30 a.m. to noon at 1500 S. Daytona Ave, Flagler Beach. The church’s mission is to provide nourishment and support in a welcoming, respectful environment. To find us, please turn at the corner of 15 Street and S. Daytona Ave, pull into the grass parking area and enter the green door.
Notably: They caved. They surrendered. They pulled a Vichy on us. But isn’t what Democrats, our very own Palestinians (those skillful own-foot-shooters), have been doing since immediately after the re-election of Obama in 2012? Part of the blame goes to him: he was too centered on his legacy to build for a post-Obama future, so grasp what we all had to in 2016. Shutdowns never work for the party out of power. This one did. This one, amazingly, did. The public was on Democrats’ side. Trump’s approval had grazed the 30s for the first time since his election. He was reaping most of the blame, and looking more cruel by the say: cutting off food stamps, eliminating air traffic controllers, shutting down travel days. It was going poorly for him and getting worse. Democrats had even more momentum from the victories of Nov. 4. All they had to do was stick it out. But no. They gave up, and for absolutely nothing in return but cosmetic bones. I’d have cheaply, punningly suggested that Democrats give cavemen a new meaning. But Cavemen–Lascaux, Altamira, Chauvet–gave us better art than much of what’s come since. Democrats just give us bison droppings. Or deserve Trump’s, now that they’ve blinked and confirmed to him that they have no spine, that they can be shoved around, or shat on.
—P.T.
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December 2025
Flagler County Commission Morning Meeting
Holiday Plant Class Series
Beverly Beach Town Commission meeting
Nar-Anon Family Group
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Palm Coast Charter Review Committee Meeting
Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 10-18, at the Flagler County Public Library
Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club
Flagler Beach Planning and Architectural Review Board
Palm Coast City Council Meeting
Bunnell Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry Evening Hours
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
For the full calendar, go here.
There are two timidities: timidity of spirit, and timidity of nerves; a physical timidity and a moral timidity. The one is independent of the other. The body can be afraid and tremble while the spirit remains calm and courageous, and vice versa. This provides the key to many moral oddities. When the two timidities unite in one man, he will be nothing his entire life. This complete timidity is that of people of whom we say: ‘He is an imbecile.’ Within this imbecile are often hidden great, suppressed qualities. Perhaps we owe to this double infirmity some monks who have lived in ecstasy. This unfortunate physical and moral disposition is produced as much by the perfection of the organs and of the soul as by defects as yet unobserved.
–From Balzac’s La rabouilleuse (“The Black Sheep,” 1840)
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Ed P says
I believe the only actual losers of the the shutdown was “we the people”. A shutdown should never be used as a political hammer to achieve a partisan goal by either party.
Dysfunctional doesn’t even begin to describe Washington. Probably less important to identify when the wheels fell off of congress than figuring out the why.
What’s even worse, those in Congress may not even realize the wheels fell off.
Is it time for Congressional term limits?
The dude says
Maybe Schumer can write a strongly worded letter… SMDH…
Dennis C Rathsam says
As the party of the JACKASSES, continues to explode, Americans see the disfunction haunting them at every turn. They screwed the poor, no Benny’s for kids food….here in the greatest country in the world. The Dems thought they had leverage to stop TRUMP! Leverage, instead of the American working poor, getting food. How sad is it that the hatered for TRUMP, stops them from doing there job. TRUMP DERANGEMENTS spell , has the DEMS in a tissy. No leader, no plan, just confusion & finger pointing. TRUMP has made there lives miserable, as he spans the globe, making deals in all countrys, for the good of the USA. As the jackass party, turns to socialism/ communism as a path to success, TRUMPS AMERICA 1ST rings from sea to shining sea. Promises made! Promises kept! SCHUMER held America hostage for 40 days! And got nothing in return! Its great to see a 50 yr carreer politition, who never had a real job in his life, get played by a carreer businessman, with a brain.
Pogo says
@When you lay dying
… malnourished by platters of platitudes, bile, and gall — thank the fool in your mirror; don’t worry about Trump and its ilk: it won’t miss a beat, a trick, a meal — or you.
https://www.google.com/search?q=history+of+ingratitude
Power wears out those who don’t have it.
— Giulio Andreotti
https://www.google.com/search?q=Giulio+Andreotti
Sherry says
Meanwhile, trump is really “Losing It” IRL. . . this from Robert Reich:
Over the last month, Trump’s mental decline has appeared to worsen. Consider:
On Sunday, he posted an image claiming that Barack Obama had been collecting millions in taxpayer dollars from “royalties linked to Obamacare.” (The bogus item was from a satirical website called the “Dunning-Kruger Times,” a reference to the Dunning-Kruger effect — the well-observed tendency of stupid people to vastly overestimate their abilities or intelligence.)
After last Tuesday’s elections, he called “affordability” a “new word” and said Republicans had not talked enough about it, but then blasted it as a Democratic “con job” and declared “I don’t want to hear about the affordability.”
Seemingly oblivious to the economic struggles Americans find themselves in, he has posted incessantly about the new Lincoln bathroom, remodeled in black and white marble with gold faucets and light fixtures; his new White House ballroom, to be built in marble and gilded in gold; and renovations at the Kennedy Center, which he said would be outfitted in marble and “magnificent high end carpeting.”
When responding to a question about his mental acuity, he confused a dementia screening test for an IQ test.
When he addressed America’s top military brass, he veered abruptly from discussing Marine morale to “Biden’s autopen” and said, “I have to sign for a general because we have beautiful paper, the gorgeous paper. I said, ‘Throw a little more gold on it, they deserve it.’ Give me — I want the A paper, not the D paper. We used to sign a piece of garbage.”
He claimed that he had halted a “nuclear” war between Iran and Pakistan, repeatedly confusing Iran and India without noticing his mistake.
He insisted he had “solved” an imaginary conflict between Cambodia and Armenia — two nations 4,000 miles apart. Days before, he bragged he’d stopped a showdown between Azerbaijan and Albania, apparently meaning Armenia.
Speaking to reporters one day after meeting with Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to avert a shutdown, Trump discussed his talks with “Chuck Schumer, who was here yesterday, along with … uhh, the, a very nice gentleman who I didn’t really know. You know who I’m talking about.”
On October 18, when more than 7 million Americans protested against him, he posted an AI video depicting him bombing the protesters with feces.
I could go on, but you get the point. Trump appears to be rapidly losing his mind.
Pogo says
@Sherry
With your background in California/West Coast tech history, what’s your prognosis for the Republic, and its Constitution, after Lex Luther, El Ison, The Eel, et al., install their Vance RAS, delete the trump.dll from System47th with 25thAmendment.exe — and reboot?
Me too; HAL, meet Skynet — you’re made for each other. Keep an eye on little JD for us…
https://www.google.com/search?q=tech+oligarchs+who+own+Vance
$ sudo coup d’état
Sherry says
Good Morning Pogo from CA.
My short response is “Follow the BILLIONS”. . . and, it doesn’t really matter where it comes from.
The Eagles said it BEST:
MUSIC BLASTING FROM AN SUV
ON A BRIGHT AND SUNNY DAY
ROLLING DOWN THE INTERSTATE
IN THE GOOD OL’ U.S.A.
HAVING LUNCH AT THE PETROLEUM CLUB
SMOKING FINE CIGARS AND SWAPPING LIES
“GIMME ANOTHER SLICE OF THAT BARBEQUE BRISKET”
“GIMME ANOTHER PIECE OF THAT PECAN PIE”
FREEWAYS FLICKERING, CELL PHONES CHIMING A TUNE
WE’RE RIDING TO UTOPIA,
ROAD MAP SAYS WE’LL BE ARRIVING SOON
CAPTAINS OF THE OLD ORDER CLINGING TO THE REINS
ASSURING US THESE ACHES INSIDE ARE ONLY GROWING PAINS
BUT IT’S A LONG ROAD OUT OF EDEN
Laurel says
Well, it could be genetic stupidity. Eric Trump, while bragging about building the new Scotland golf course, stated “We had unlimited funds. We exceeded it.”
Skibum says
LOL, I hadn’t heard about that so thanks for sharing. The felon in the WH and his two seeds have unlimited stupidity, and they continue to exceed it.
Sherry says
To Laurel and Skibum. . .
The trouble is that millions of the “Walking Dead Brains” see absolutely nothing wrong or “Supit”= Maga speak . . . with trump or his “brain trust, immoral” issue doing absolutely anything and everything they like. Their “reign” is complete empowerment! Remember “Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely”!
Endless dark money says
6 spineless democrats caved to the Republican terror. Congrats now your healthcare premiums will skyrocket and 20 million become uninsured and end up in er followed by bankruptcy then by higher premiums for those still left paying haha! With 100000 extra citizens dying each year and already over 700000 starved from usaid cuts we should be well over a million preventable human deaths caused directly by republicans! Don’t forget Gaza . Good thing the Venezuelans have universal healthcare haha!
Ray W. says
During a Monday interview of Secretary of the Interior, Doug Borgum, Fox News anchor Sandra Smith said:
“I’ll ask you a question so many are talking about, and that is gas and oil prices. … Thankfully, we have seen oil come down significantly — more than 20 percent since election day. Gas prices are now negative under this administration, almost to the three dollar mark. … How much do you believe they will continue to go down? The president is talking about — I think I’ve heard him talk about — $2 gas?”
On the screen, as Ms. Smith talked, was an image comparing gasoline prices at the pump yesterday compared to a year ago, taken from AAA figures. Last year, on November 10th, the average price for a gallon of gas at the pump was $3.08. Yesterday, the average price for a gallon of gas at the pump was $3.07.
As for that $2 per gallon price at the pump that President Trump keeps talking about, according to GasBuddy.com, the lowest price at the pump for a gallon of regular gas was $2.438, in Natrona County, Wyoming.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Of the many subjects about which the professional lying class that sits atop one of our two parties lies the most it is energy in all its forms that really stimulates their lying.
President Trump lies over and over again that gas can be bought for less than $2 per gallon at the pump, without ever naming the state or states in which this is happening. According to the EIA, according to GasBuddy.com, according to AAA, this is something that simply has not happened even once since he took office nearly 10 months ago, unless a company like Bucees is running a special, such as a dollar off each gallon of gas if a customer first purchases a car wash at a set price.
One example of President Trump lying about the price of gasoline at the pump occurred in front of attendees at a recent American Business Forum, held in Miami, according to a Forbes article.
President Trump said that “gasoline prices have plummeted to the lowest in two decades. On the date of President Trump’s Forum address, the national average price of a gallon of gas at the pump was $3.10. In November 2005, according to EIA data, the average price for a gallon of gas at the pump was $2.42.
President Trump also told the Forum audience that Americans will soon see $2 per gallon of gasoline at the pump.
Ray W. says
An Oil Price US reporter is taking the perspective that OPEC+ is opening a price war among crude oil producers.
He starts his article with this:
“Contrary to popular belief, oil prices aren’t determined by any one country, company, or cartel. Instead, they’re the product of a global tug-of-war among producers, traders, and policymakers. It’s a market defined not just by physics, but by psychology, where the actions of a few key players can ripple across the world in a matter of hours.
“On November 2nd, OPEC+ announced a modest 137,000 barrel-per-day production increase for December, followed by a pause on further increases in the first quarter of 2026. The move surprised many analysts who expected continued restraint. On the surface, boosting supply when prices are already under pressure seems counterintuitive. But this is not a move driven by near-term pricing. It’s a move about market share and about power.
“As Morningstar aptly summarized, ‘defending market share now outweighs defending prices.'”
The reporter notes that OPEC is voting to raise production at a time when American crude oil production has just hit an all-time high, at more than 13.7 million barrels per day, [a level up from the 13.6 mbpd output record set in December of last year]. He argues that while American shale oil producers can quickly raise output, they are individual companies, and not a cartel, like OPEC. OPEC can raise output as a group and drive down worldwide crude oil prices, which will bankrupt, i.e., “squeeze out”, marginal American independent producers, something that happened to American shale oil producers in 2014 to 2016, when OPEC+ flooded the international marketplace with crude oil. A significant number of American shale oil producers went bankrupt or were snapped up at low prices by larger and better positioned companies.
The reporter writes that OPEC understands this business dynamic. “By modestly boosting output now, it’s signaling to the market that it won’t easily cede share to U.S. producers, even if that means tolerating prices closer to $75 per barrel rather than the $90 level that many members prefer.”
Make of this what you will.
Me?
There is much more to this story, just as there is much more to the allegations of collusion between OPEC and major American shale oil producers, starting in early 2021. But market share is an important psychological motivator and losing market share can carry its own long-term costs. This is an important insight into what is happening right now in the international crude oil marketplace.