On Indonesia’s Independence Day, quake survivors stay out of houses left standing. Belgium’s century fire meets a change in the weather. Italy’s Po River keeps dropping.

Indiana reckons with a record flood that’s still on the move. Lala leaves Hawaii. Something new watches the Western ridgelines.

A fisherman off Washington lands a catch that doesn’t belong there. A bear lets itself into a Kentucky kitchen. And a diver goes into a flooded Mexican cave and doesn’t come back out — for fifteen days.

Art Sterling. Weekdays.