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Weather: Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 3pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 92. Heat index values as high as 109. Southwest wind 9 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. Thursday Night: Showers and thunderstorms likely before 2am, then a chance of showers between 2am and 5am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 5am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 74. Southwest wind 7 to 9 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. 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:
Beats and Eats: Live Concert and Food Trucks at the Stage in Town Center, 6 p.m. at The Stage at Town Center, 1500 Central Avenue, Palm Coast. Music by Half Step Down. Beats & Eats combines the food truck lineup residents know and love with live concert entertainment, building on the success of both Food Truck Tuesday and the Palm Coast Concert Series. The event will take place monthly from May through October. Live music, food trucks, vendors, yard games, and beer and wine.
Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park, from noon to 2 p.m. in Central Park in Town Center, 975 Central Ave. Join Bill Wells, Bob Rupp and other members of the Palm Coast Model Yacht Club, watch them race or join the races with your own model yacht. No dues to join the club, which meets at the pond in Central Park every Thursday.
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.
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Notably:The lowering of flags at half-mast is that paradox of solemnity that, the more often it’s ordered, the more it loses its meaning and appeal. In the time of Louis XIV flags weren’t lowered, because there were no such things as national flags, but the fountains at Versailles were stilled for the same reason, though I doubt they were stilled for every Tom, Duke and Henrietta, otherwise the fountains would have never splashed all year: death was as common as court concubines. In 18th century France, Retif de la Bretonne tells us, brides wore black at their wedding, in anticipation of one of the spouses dying: it was that frequent. The bride also wore a pink belt and ribbons. “The Indians,” the great and too-little read historian Francis Parkman wrote, “who, though often rapacious, are utterly devoid of avarice, are accustomed in times of mourning, or on other solemn occasions, to give away the whole of their possessions, and reduce themselves to nakedness and want,” certainly a more meaningful expression than flag lowerings, which have now become the visual equivalent of thoughts and prayers, with the added distaste of bombastic patriotism. Mourning is so much more private, and painful, because “what we call mourning,” Thomas Mann writes in The Magic Mountain, “is perhaps not so much the pain of the impossibility of ever seeing the dead return to life as the pain of not being able to wish it.” Then comes Updike with this:
“men die, each father in turn has lost a father, it is unmanly and impious to persist in unavailing woe.” True. But also a bit dishonest. Grief isn’t woe, and there is nothing unmanly or impious in its persistence. Contrary to Mann, I see it as our only means of keeping the dead from the worst fate: the oblivion of forgetting, however fated we all are to it sooner than later.
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They accompanied his remains weeping and all uttered cries even more heartbreaking than the cries of Moses when the Almighty God struck Mount Sinai. They buried him and it was suddenly as if the gaping grave was dug in their hearts. And seeing him thus carried on his stretcher, I saw Mount Radwa carried by humans; could I have believed it? no, And no more did I believe before his burial that the stars were also placed in the tomb. neighbor of the sepulchre, prisoner of rest, the radiance of your beauty illuminates your night. These verses cannot give you life again, you whom death rolls up but leaves unfolded!
–From The 106th of the Thousand and One Nights.
Laurel says
Trump tells us everything is great. Groceries are down, gas is coming down rapidly, it’s all wonderful, and he keeps reminding us, after two years, that it’s not his fault. He “inherited a mess.” He told us Kamala Harris would start a war.
The buck stops in his wallet.
PaulT says
We’re with you Laurel, at least thos of us with functioning brains.
As to “The buck stops in his (Trump’s) wallet” the bucks in his wallet are increasing rapidly as foreign and domestic ‘investments’ both by foreignn state funds and American billionaire businessmen buy Trump’s influence/good will by purchasing worthless crypto and meme coins from his family owned companies which ‘popped up’ at the start of his second term.
The Foreign and Domestic Emoluments clauses of the constitution specifically forbid his crooked deals but our GOP dominated Congress ignores their constitutional obligation to challenge Trump’s criminality.
And have no doubt that in sunny Flagler County it’s likely that more repugnant-Republicans are offended by the image of today’s cartoon, which portrays the racially integration of America that they hate. So they will obstinately ignore the message that Donald Trump’s policy of wars and tariffs is making Americans poorer while Trump gets richer.
Then they’ll blame the torpid economy and increase in inflation on Biden (or Fauci?)
Laurel says
I know there are three kinds of Republicans:
1.) The uneducated magas, whom Trump claims to love, and why not? They’re making him filthy rich (and I do mean filthy), while ignoring his blatant corruption.
2.) The greedy wealthy (not all are, of course) who are gambling their asses off in the volatile, nonsensical stock market, and happy to take advantage of no bid contracts paid by taxpayers, and love the deregulation of our public lands and protections.
3.) Normal GOP who are disgusted with the current behavior of the childlike Trump, and the selfishness of those who are happy to walk all over those who could use help, yet call themselves “Christians.”
I have faith in the latter, third group. I believe they will go out and vote for sanity, even if they have to vote for the party they do no align with. They know they have to do this to get our country stabilized, and believable again. I am counting on them to do that.
Sherry says
@ Laurel. . . especially loving you last line! LOL! The Buck Stops in His Wallet! PERFECT!
Pogo says
Give thanks for small mercies and miracles
… neither Trump nor DeSantis is a nudist—one less reason to gouge your own eyes out!
Sherry says
Thanks for my laugh of the day Pogo! Too Funny! LOL!