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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
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
FPC and Matanzas High School Graduations at Ocean Center
Al-Anon Family Groups
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).
Dennis C Rathsam says
Rather a car with bags of money on it, it should have waited another day! Today is Mothers day! Give thanks to the woman that sacrificed, watched you, taught you, fed you…..Mothers are special ladies, one of a kind. Treat them with the dignity & respect they deserve! Happy Mothers Day to my mother in heaven, I cant thank you enough.
Jim says
I wish I could afford the gas to take my wife to a Mother’s day dinner but I sacrificed that so I could send some money to Trump for his ballroom.
Happy Mother’s Day! All is right in America and the world. Prices are sky high, our allies now appear to be Israel and Russia. Truth means nothing, lying is our leader’s primary way of communicating and Republicans know they have done such a poor job that their only hope is to gerrymander the next election to their favor. We’ll see. When you’ve lost the independents and several of the minorities they counted on, will gerrymandering change the equation? (Hint: Nope!!!)
Ray W. says
The Detroit Free Press reports that regional gasoline prices are expected to rise, not because of the effects of the Iran War, but because not only have two Illinois-based refineries been closed for maintenance (they just reopened) and because the Midwest’s largest refinery, Indiana-based, had to shut down due to a “flaring” issue, but because a Louisiana refinery had recently exploded.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Sometimes, gasoline prices move up or down for reasons unrelated to presidential policies. That doesn’t mean that dishonest people won’t try to blame presidential policies anyway.
For example, in early August 2023, a heat dome slowly moved from the American Southwest to the Atlantic seaboard. On one of the heat dome dates, FlaglerLive projected for the day a heat index value of 120 degrees F, the highest heat index value for the area that I have ever seen.
For about 10 days to two weeks during the eastward heat dome drift, Texas and Louisiana refineries were exposed to the extreme high temperatures. I commented to FlaglerLive readers of an article I had found about refineries losing operating efficiencies in temperatures above 95 degrees F; the story reported on refined gasoline outputs being lower than normal due to such prolonged heat conditions. A number of FlaglerLive commenters then blamed the Biden administration for the sudden increase in prices at the pump.
There has long been and still exists a lot of lying and lie laundering on the FlaglerLive forum. Every FlaglerLive reader knows or ought to know who the liars are. Some are more professional in their expressions of dishonesty than others. No one should ever accept at face value anything these chronically dishonest people submit.
Laurel says
“Yes, oil companies are making significant profits recently, largely due to rising oil prices driven by geopolitical tensions and supply constraints. For instance, major companies like Exxon and Chevron have reported earnings that exceed Wall Street expectations despite some fluctuations in profit figures.”
– Search Assist, PBS, kake.com
A little pain for us.
Pogo says
The most important thing I read today
Dangerously Overconfident
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/10/opinion/china-trump-us-power.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hVA.MvrG.ga9UARkrY2bq&smid=url-share