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Old 12-28-2019, 05:50 PM
 
Location: Houston, TX (Bellaire)
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My son loves setting off fireworks but its illegal in Houston. Does anyone know an area outside of town people can go set off their own fireworks?
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Old 12-28-2019, 08:08 PM
 
Location: Houston TX
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North Katy will be full of fireworks. Anywhere along a bayou or retention pond in that area will be fine.
Somewhere north of Clay Rd, west of Barker Cypress, south of FM529 and east of Hwy 99.
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Old 12-28-2019, 09:18 PM
 
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"Illegal"
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Old 12-29-2019, 12:23 PM
 
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"Illegal"
Lol right. I was in the Bellaire/Gulfton area the night of Christmas Eve and could have mistaken the place for a battle zone with how many fireworks were being shot off. It's illegal but lightly enforced it seems.
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Old 12-29-2019, 12:53 PM
 
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I was in the Bellaire/Gulfton area the night of Christmas Eve
heheheheheheheh

I've now lived Fourth of July and Christmas and soon to be New Year's in Southwest Houston, Detroit, Dayton (Ohio) and soon to complete the set here in Chicago.

I live in a mostly Hispanic neighborhood with a population density comparable with that of Gulfton now. It was nuts over here on the Fourth. Not so much at Christmas. I'm surprised the NYE pops haven't started yet. Surely it sounds like Andre the Giant on a sheet of bubble wrap over there in Gulfton by now.

By the way, it's nominally "illegal" to shoot fireworks in any of these places.

Out in the unincorporated areas, it's almost always a free-for-all. Some 25 years ago, I was in Spring on the Fourth with some neighborhood kids and we blew up a mailbox and probably committed a federal crime, but nothing happened.
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Old 12-29-2019, 02:14 PM
 
Location: Willowbrook, Houston
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NW Houston off 290 going towards Prarie View, TX
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Old 12-30-2019, 12:23 AM
 
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heheheheheheheh

I've now lived Fourth of July and Christmas and soon to be New Year's in Southwest Houston, Detroit, Dayton (Ohio) and soon to complete the set here in Chicago.

I live in a mostly Hispanic neighborhood with a population density comparable with that of Gulfton now. It was nuts over here on the Fourth. Not so much at Christmas. I'm surprised the NYE pops haven't started yet. Surely it sounds like Andre the Giant on a sheet of bubble wrap over there in Gulfton by now.

By the way, it's nominally "illegal" to shoot fireworks in any of these places.

Out in the unincorporated areas, it's almost always a free-for-all. Some 25 years ago, I was in Spring on the Fourth with some neighborhood kids and we blew up a mailbox and probably committed a federal crime, but nothing happened.
lol at first I was like wtf is going on? Then I got used to it and it was just background noise. It was Christmas Eve after all.

But yes, I've mostly experienced the fireworks in the unincorporated areas, not in the city. And I grew up in 3rd ward, you'd hear a few fireworks, but nothing like what I heard in Southwest last week.
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Old 12-30-2019, 03:39 AM
 
Location: Tricity, PL
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Here where you can see fireworks:
https://www.houstononthecheap.com/ne...eworks-houston

And here is a map where you can legally shoot them off:
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-t...n-14056381.php
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Old 12-30-2019, 07:05 AM
 
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The current fine for possession of fireworks in the City of Houston is $821. HFD Fire Marshals have been known to watch people buying fireworks in Harris County, then bust them as soon as they cross the City limits.
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Old 12-30-2019, 09:52 AM
 
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The current fine for possession of fireworks in the City of Houston is $821. HFD Fire Marshals have been known to watch people buying fireworks in Harris County, then bust them as soon as they cross the City limits.

It's a money grab. Most of the time, i.e. when there's not a severe drought, it's too wet there, there's too much concrete and it's spread out. It's not like the city's gonna get burned to the ground with an M-80.

Over here they don't give a ****. They can buy whatever they want in Indiana and bring it home. Better that it's bunghole whistlers, husker-dos and husker-don'ts and not gunshots.

Some of those death trap apartments on the SW side should be torched anyway.
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