This Week Around Town
Open Daily- October 3-9 Bouke de Vries: War & Pieces at Lightner Museum This exhibition of London-based Dutch artist Bouke De Vries’ War & Pieces has been described as a “masterwork” by art critics. The…
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Marsh Creek Floods as Ian Brushes By
At 5pm, the Hurricane Center declared Ian had returned to a Cat 1 hurricane. The storm pushed off-land into the Atlantic in the afternoon near the Kennedy Space Center as a tropical storm. As expected,…
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Flash Flood Warning Extended, Bridge of Lions Closed, 312 Remains Open
At 11:20 am, the National Weather Service issued a FLASH FLOOD WARNING for our area, and at mid-afternoon extended the advisory until 9:00 pm this evening. Water was already pushing into Marsh Creek from the…
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Bridges Still Open as Tropical Storm Ian Arrives
At 6am this morning, St. Johns County bridges, including the 312 bridge from Anastasia Island to the mainland, were still open. The county expected to be forced to close them “later today”. “We are playing…
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Hurricane Ian Makes Landfall with Powerful Winds and Rain
“I’ve covered maybe 91 hurricanes”, said the Weather Channel’s 20-year veteran Mike Seidel, “but this is the worst one I’ve seen”. Seidel was reporting from Fort Myers mid-afternoon today, moments before Hurricane Ian made landfall…
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UPDATE: Ian Coming Ashore as a Cat 4 Hurricane Warning Issued for Coastal St. Johns
The 11am advisory: …IAN WILL CAUSE CATASTROPHIC STORM SURGE, WINDS, AND FLOODING IN THE FLORIDA PENINSULA SOON…A Hurricane Warning has been issued from Sebastian Inlet, Floridanorthward to the Flagler/Volusia County Line, Florida.A Hurricane Watch has…
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Ian Now a Cat-4 in Approach to Naples, Florida. SJC Evacuations underway.
At 6am this morning, St. Johns County’s partial evacuation plan got underway affecting St. Augustine, St. Augustine Beach, Ponte Vedra and areas along the St. Johns River – Zones A, B, and part of F….
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Beauty before the Mess
We won’t see something like this beauty, tonight’s sunset, until Sunday at the earliest. Be safe, stay dry and healthy. We will come out of this…
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Hurricane Ian Shifts Eastward Again – County Issues Evacuation Orders
Late this afternoon, as winds began picking up and lines stretched at gas stations, St. Johns County declared an evacuation order at 6am tomorrow morning for coastal St. Johns. That order includes Marsh Creek. While…
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Tropical Storm Watch Declared for St. Johns County
Significant Flooding Anticipated St. Johns County announced a Tropical Storm Watch (see below) at 5pm today, just as the updated National Hurricane Center tracking showed another easterly shift in Hurricane Ian’s expected path, potentially bringing…
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Hurricane Ian On Course to arrive Wednesday
At 5am this morning, Hurricane Ian was on track to come uncomfortably close to St. Augustine Wednesday morning after a slight eastward tilt to its expected path mid-week. Tropical force, and potentially even hurricane force…
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St. Johns County Civic Roundtable
St. Johns County Civic Roundtable to Host Public Meeting on 1 Cent Sales Tax Increase “Everything You Need to Know About the 1% Sales Tax Proposal” The St. Johns County Civic Roundtable will host…
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Ian Arrives Mid-Week
At 5am, the National Hurricane Center gave our first Florida storm of the year a name: Ian. Tropical Storm Ian remains a threat to Florida, expecting to develop into a hurricane sometime Sunday. Once past…
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Watching Tropical Depression 9
The National Hurricane Center’s 5AM notice has added Tropical Depression 9 to its watch, with a forecast probability that the system will develop into a hurricane threatening Florida by the middle of next week. The…
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This Week Around Town
Open Daily- September 19-25 Tom Schifanella: Faces of the Alcazar at Lightner Museum Faces of the Alcazar presents a compelling glimpse of life behind-the-scenes at Henry Flagler’s Alcazar Hotel. Through large-format photographs, the exhibition documents…
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Spared again?
It appears that Florida will be spared. The National Hurricane Center tracking Tropical Storm Fiona has a confident trajectory showing the system moving away from the British Virgin Islands, brushing Puerto Rico and the Dominican…
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Tropical Depression 7
This new storm popped up on the radar this morning, dubbed “Tropical Depression 7” by the National Hurricane Center, which anticipates the system developing into a tropical storm later in the day. As storm years…
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Around Town This Week
Open Daily- September 12-18 Tom Schifanella: Faces of the Alcazar at Lightner Museum Faces of the Alcazar presents a compelling glimpse of life behind-the-scenes at Henry Flagler’s Alcazar Hotel. Through large-format photographs, the exhibition documents…
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In Tribute to Her Late Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II
As I noted in a previous report, not everyone has the chance to meet a queen. The Queen of England, precisely. In 1976, I did, as chronicled in this Spoonbill Courier story, published to mark…
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This Week Around Town
Open Daily- September 5-11 Picturing a Nation: American Art from the Lightner Museum Picturing a Nation is a major installation of American paintings and sculpture from the Lightner Museum’s permanent collection. From America’s great vistas…
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