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Weather: A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 11am. Partly sunny, with a high near 89. Heat index values as high as 100. Light and variable wind becoming east 6 to 11 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 17 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Thursday Night: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms before 8pm, then a slight chance of showers after 2am. Partly cloudy, with a low around 77. East wind 5 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
- 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:
Drug Court convenes before Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols at 10 a.m. in Courtroom 401 at the Flagler County courthouse, Kim C. Hammond Justice Center 1769 E Moody Blvd, Bldg 1, Bunnell. Drug Court is open to the public. See the Drug Court handbook here and the participation agreement here.
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.
Story Time with Miss Kim at Flagler Beach Public Library, 11 to 11:45 a.m. at the library, 315 South Seventh Street, Flagler Beach. It’s where the wild things are.
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.
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Notably: You’d think an event that led to the instant death of 80,000 people and the protracted death of another 60,000 would be cause for annual commemorations the world over, including in the nation that perpetrated the mass killing. A few American communities do mark the Hiroshima bombing. Peace Action of Wisconsin has an annual Hiroshima and Nagasaki commemoration with lantern-making on Thursday and the display along Memorial Drive in Milwaukee on Saturday. Peace Choir Worcester last year started commemorating the event with a cal for disarmament at Elm Park on Worcester, Mass., and will be there again this evening. But those are exceptions. For the most part the bombings will go unremarked, even, I suspect, by the White House. And if for Hiroshima and Nagasaki, why not for Dresden and Tokyo? For Coventry and London? it could be a long list. But the atomic bombings were different. Particularly now, when awareness of annihilation is so low and the potential for it so high, and as transactional as that may sound, commemorations serve as reminders that we are at risk. A nuclear conflagration is not less possible today than it was during the Reagan years, and in the eyes of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, it’s higher still. It’s 85 seconds to midnight, according to the Bulletin’s Doomsday Clock. Commemorations are always more about the future than the past. In this case, they are the only commemorations that address a possible reality most of us refuse to imagine: the end of the future. Imagine being part of a generation that could do this. No human could possibly deny a past. No humans until 1945 could deny the future of civilization. Now we have that power: to end it all, including the right to life for future billions.
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August 2026
Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry
Flagler County Drug Court Convenes
Story Time with Miss Kim at Flagler Beach Public Library
Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Town Center
The Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
In Court: Flagler Home Builders Association v. Palm Coast
First Friday Garden Walks at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park
Friday Blue Forum
First Friday in Flagler Beach
Free Family Art Night at Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens
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“… they had won, or soon would win, the war. But something had been lost too. Hiroshima, a thriving city of 344,000 people at 9:14 A.M., had by 9:16 A.M. lost 60,175 in dead and missing. Four square miles of civilization had been vaporized. In Washington President Truman was soon announc ing, “Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiro-shima. It is a harnessing of the basic power of the universe. The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.” That was correct, but when he added that America had “spent two billion dollars on the biggest scientific gamble in history – and won,” it was wrong. To speak of such slaughter as a winning bet was tasteless. In savage irony, imprisoned Hermann Göring put it better. “A mighty accomplishment,” he said. “I don’t want anything to do with it.”
–From William Manchester’s The Glory and the Dream (1975).
Pogo says
In the 3-dimensional universe:
Allied Estimates: U.S. wartime planners calculated that total Allied casualties for a complete conquest of the Japanese home islands would range from 1.7 million to 4 million, with 400,000 to 800,000 deaths.
The Japanese Plan (Ketsu-Go): Japan’s military leadership organized a total national defense mobilization plan that integrated millions of civilian militia members instructed to fight to the death.
Alternative Strategies: If a ground invasion had been bypassed in favor of a total naval blockade and intensive food-supply interdiction, post-war studies estimated that mass starvation could have resulted in a comparable multi-million civilian death toll.
https://www.google.com/search?q=japanese+lives+saved+by+preventing+the+need+of+land++invasion
And
During the late 19th and mid-20th centuries, particularly through the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II, the military forces of the Empire of Japan committed massive war crimes and atrocities. These actions resulted in the deaths of millions of civilians and prisoners of war through systematic massacres, forced labor, human experimentation, and starvation.
https://www.google.com/search?q=japan+war+crimes
As stated
https://www.google.com/search?q=irony
Ibid
https://www.google.com/search?q=Hermann+Goring
“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell, Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays
EC: File
Pogo says
Elsewhere, and otherwise — a modest proposal