🚩 BEACH SAFETY UPDATE | 6/5/26 🚩
Current flag conditions across our area:
🔴🔴 Double Red Flags
• Navarre Beach
• Pensacola Beach
• Gulf Shores
• Orange Beach
🔴 Single Red Flags
• Destin-Fort Walton Beach
• Panama City Beach
• Walton County Beaches
What does a single red flag mean?
A single red flag means dangerous surf and deadly rip currents are present. While the water is not closed, beach safety officials often remind visitors that “knee deep is too deep” during red flag conditions. Personally, as a local, I wouldn’t even go ankle deep in conditions like these.
What does a double red flag mean?
A double red flag means the water is closed to the public. Stay out of the Gulf.
Every time we post about dangerous beach conditions, we see comments saying, “It’s only a single red flag. I can still get in the water.”
Maybe that’s true from a rules standpoint, but I view that as a selfish way of looking at it.
The question shouldn’t be whether you can get in the water. The question should be whether you should.
When you enter the water during dangerous conditions, you’re not only putting your own life at risk, you’re potentially putting the lives of lifeguards, first responders, and rescuers at risk too. Every year, we see rescuers lose their lives trying to save others from rip currents and rough surf.
Please respect the flags. They’re flying for a reason.
And remember: some of y’all treat the Gulf like you treat your relationships. Red flags doesn’t mean dive right in. 🚩😂
I think if Walmart is going to hold their shareholders meetings on campus and use Razorback sports facilities they need to donate at least $500 million per year to the NIL.
I mean that’s only logical & fair IMO
Dear @WhiteHouse, my name is Rodney Smith Jr., founder of Raising Men & Women Lawn Care Service in Huntsville, Alabama. Through our 50 Yard Challenge, over 6,000 kids across the country have signed up to mow free lawns for the elderly, disabled, veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and single parents. With America celebrating its 250th birthday this year and me also being born on July 4th, I wanted to humbly ask if a few kids from our program and myself could travel to Washington, D.C. to help mow the White House lawn for this historic celebration.
More than anything, I want these kids to see how a simple act of service something as ordinary as mowing a lawn for someone in need can lead to extraordinary places. What better lesson in community service than showing them that helping others can take them all the way to our nation’s capital? I’d also love to bring my American flag-themed mower in hopes that the President might sign it, so I can later auction it off and donate 100% of the proceeds to a nonprofit supporting veterans. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to highlight the importance of service, patriotism, and the impact young people can have when they choose to make a difference. 🇺🇸