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Weather: Partly sunny with a slight chance of showers in the morning, then mostly cloudy with showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent. Sunday Night: Showers likely. A chance of thunderstorms, mainly in the evening. Cooler with lows in the mid 50s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of rain 70 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 Daytona Beach (a few minutes off from Flagler Beach) here.
- Tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.
Today at a Glance:
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students: 9:30 to 10:25 a.m. at Grace Presbyterian Church, 1225 Royal Palms Parkway, Palm Coast. Improve your English skills while studying the Bible. This study is geared toward intermediate and advanced level English Language Learners.
‘The Drowsy Chaperone,’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Avenue, St. Augustine, 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays, $35. When wealthy widow, Mrs. Tottenham, hosts the wedding of the year, she gets a lot more than a write-up in the society pages. This magical piece of meta-theatre and playful, heartfelt parody of the 1920s musical comedy features a chirpy jaz
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village: The city’s only farmers’ market is open every Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. at European Village, 101 Palm Harbor Pkwy, Palm Coast. With fruit, veggies, other goodies and live music. For Vendor Information email [email protected]
Grace Community Food Pantry, 245 Education Way, Bunnell, drive-thru open today from noon to 3 p.m. The food pantry is organized by Pastor Charles Silano and Grace Community Food Pantry, a Disaster Relief Agency in Flagler County. Feeding Northeast Florida helps local children and families, seniors and active and retired military members who struggle to put food on the table. Working with local grocery stores, manufacturers, and farms we rescue high-quality food that would normally be wasted and transform it into meals for those in need. The Flagler County School District provides space for much of the food pantry storage and operations. Call 386-586-2653 to help, volunteer or donate.
Notebook: There’s a pandemic of narcissism in our parking lots: the backing-in pandemic. It’s rampant. It was latent in the first century or more of vehicular driveslaughter. Now back-up cameras have turned an occasional necessity into a self-absorbed affectation. Backing in is allegedly done for the convenience and safety of driving off quicker and not hitting children along the way (always bring out that children card). But it takes three times as much time to back in and drive out than it does to drive in, back out and drive out. In net time spent parking and unparking, it’s a loss. Imbeciles don’t think that far. Not do they care that backing in is a time suck for everyone else as incapable driving goons (the bigger vehicle, the dumber the goon) slow time down to maneuver their car’s ass the right way, making everyone else around them wait. So it is now: the Me Decade on crack in this wasteland of parking lots.
After this Notebook published I received this note from a friend: “I’ve also heard the “back-in” boys (suspect it’s disproportionately a male phenomenon) refer to it as “combat parking”, adding the always popular military/law enforcement gloss to the inconvenience to others and giving their Alpha maleness a boost with the notion they can more quickly zoom into action if an undocumented person or Palestinian supporter appears unexpectedly. Too cynical?” Not in the least.
—P.T.
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March 2025
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
‘The Drowsy Chaperone,’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre
East Flagler Mosquito Control District Board Meeting
Flagler County Commission Evening Meeting
Nar-Anon Family Group
For the full calendar, go here.
There are other ways parking wrecks the urban fabric. It creates its own sprawl — the more endless, often empty parking lots between businesses, the less walkable and more car-dependent the city becomes. Because pavement sucks up ambient heat, parking also creates enormous urban “heat islands” that intensify the effects of global warming. And requiring parking worsens inequality. Because people whose income is less tend to drive less and use transit more, they’re essentially being forced to pay for infrastructure they don’t need — while wealthier car drivers get a break on the true costs of their car habit. “People who are too poor to own a car pay more for their groceries to ensure that richer people can park free when they drive to the store,” [urban planning professor Donald] Shoup has written.
–From Farhad Manjoo’s “We’ve Got to Stop Requiring Parking Everywhere,” The New York Times, June 2, 2022.
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