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Weather: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 87. Calm wind becoming northeast 5 to 8 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 70%. Sunday Night: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 72. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
- 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:
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]
‘The Curious Savage” at Daytona Playhouse, 100 Jessamine Blvd., Daytona Beach. Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 7:30 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m., with an extra Saturday matinee on May 16 at 2 p.m. A recent widow has hidden $10 million in bonds and her grown-up stepchildren want to get their hands on it. They commit her to a sanatorium hoping to “bring her to her senses.” Tickets $15-$25. Box office: (386) 255-2431.
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.
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.
Al-Anon Family Groups: Help and hope for families and friends of alcoholics. Meetings are every Sunday at Silver Dollar II Club, Suite 707, 2729 E Moody Blvd., Bunnell, and on zoom. More local meetings available and online too. Call 904-315-0233 or see the list of Flagler, Volusia, Putnam and St. Johns County meetings here.
Notably: Shell Oil reported $7 billion in profits for the first three months of the year. The New York Times, in an Onion-like moment, characterized the profits as “robust.” The word they were looking for in the grayness of their moral rectitude is obscene, if not lewd, given the context: this is war profiteering. $77 million a day in profits, or $3.2 million an hour, which appears to come cheaper than the $25 billion officially spent on the Iran war, according to Hegseth, but not really: Shell had revenue of $70 billion (our billions), more than three times Disney’s revenue of $25 billion (and profits of $1.57 billion). I’d rather spend my money at Disney, though it’ll cost me some dear petrol to get there. No need to look up the other oil companies. It’s all the same. “There must be something wrong, radically and morally and politically wrong,” Madison wrote, “in a system which transfers the rewards from those who paid the most valuable of all considerations, to those who paid any consideration at all.” Meanwhile the maimed run in Gaza.
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May 2026
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
‘The Curious Savage” at Daytona Playhouse
Al-Anon Family Groups
Nar-Anon Family Group
Bunnell City Commission Meeting
For the full calendar, go here.
Private corporations got into the mountain bunker craze, too. AT&1, whose communication networks were so key to the U.S. government, built an underground facility in Netcong, New Jersey, complete with steel gray desks carefully arranged in descending size by an executive’s rank-the nameplates on each desk were always kept up-to-date. In 1951, businessman Herman Knaust started the Iron Mountain Atomic Storage Company-a series of underground vaults created inside an old iron mine outside Hud-son, New York. For years, Knaust had been running the mine as an underground mushroom farm, but shifted focus when he recognized the business opportunities of the Cold War. “If an atom bomb burst right on top of us, it wouldn’t even make a Geiger counter flicker here in the vaults,” Knaust said. Under heavy security, the retrofitted mine became hugely successful, a repository for valuable artworks, corporate archives, and even, in wartime, the executives themselves. Companies like General Electric and IBM turned to it for records storage, while others, like Standard Oil and Shell Oil, actually built full-on emergency dormitories for their staff to shelter in during a war. The magazine The Nation called it a “20th Century Noah’s Ark” for thousands of specially selected Wall Street employees. Part of the motivation was self-interest. During early readiness exercises, conducted in conjunction with government officials, Standard Oil management balked at the idea of their company being nationalized during a disaster, and the executives believed they would have a better chance at preserving private ownership of their company if they could demonstrate the seriousness of their war preparations.
–From Garrett Graff’s Raven Rock (217).
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