Fireworks (Decatur: property, suburbia, stores)

[zenjenn]

Uhm, wow.

When I heard my neighbors were going to shoot off street fireworks, I was imagining the fireworks that were legal in California in the 1970's. That is, little flowers, piccolo petes, sparklers, and fountains. I had absolutely no idea that BIG OL' AERIAL EXPLOSIVES were shot off commonly by random people in some parts of this country. Yikes!

And yeah, there was no law-enforcement happening anywhere in the Big Cove area. Those things were going off everywhere.

I hope everyone had a happy 4th!

[Southeastern]

The sky in Monrovia area was lit up for a couple hours.

[Charles]

I wrote a C++ routine for my 22" monitor that looks just like fireworks, with sound on my 300 watt stereo. Safe. Free. Legal. Same thing. Virtual fireworks.


fireworks screensavers - Google Search

Actually, I heard all the shows were a shorter duration this year due to the huge fireworks factory explosion in China - low supply of fireworks. The show we went to in Palmer Lake, CO was only about 10-15 minutes; normally about 30.

[harry chickpea]

Not anywhere near as intense as south Florida. There were many 4ths where the smell was pervasive all evening, and in addition to seeing three municipal displays from our property, we had locals trying to rival them. About midnight, it was best to go inside as people were popping pistols in the air.

Out here in the country, we had no fireworks, although some gunfire. Watched the Boston and Washington ones on tv.

[33458]

Originally Posted by harry chickpea

Not anywhere near as intense as south Florida. There were many 4ths where the smell was pervasive all evening, and in addition to seeing three municipal displays from our property, we had locals trying to rival them. About midnight, it was best to go inside as people were popping pistols in the air.

Out here in the country, we had no fireworks, although some gunfire. Watched the Boston and Washington ones on tv.

Oh, you have NO idea...

My husband likes fireworks...I find them to be a waste of gunpowder. To each his own.

But in The Heights, where I used to live down there in So Fl - no exaggeration - EVERYBODY and their brother, son, grand-baby, shot off something in the street, or in the front yard, or in the back yard...and this would go on well past midnight.

The stench...the fog...the litter. Ugh.

There were three things that pithed me off about all this:

1) I had a young toddler who could not sleep because the noise terrified her, since the guy directly in back and those on either side were shooting off BIG STUFF (and somebody two streets down had illegal 'professional' works...yeah - real bright, that one, right in the middle of .11 acre suburbia...BOOM!) and there was basically nothing I could do about it...polite reasoning was ineffective...they were drunk, after all...the cops were overwhelmed and stated as much.

2) The refuse from the various what-have-you would wind up on the roof or lawn, and no-one cleaned up the crap that was left everywhere the day after...

3) We had several years of drought, where displays were tightly controlled or canceled, yet these yahoos would still be setting them off, risking and sometimes setting fires.

I was quite glad to see that the activity right here in my neck of the woods was quite subdued. Little crackers for the briefest time, then everybody chilled out.
Someone set some larger stuff off on the hill next to us (near 72) but nothing closer than that...

[KevK]

Alabama and Tennessee are BIG into fireworks. They have HUGE fireworks stores- I mean the size of a damn Wal*Mart! And they are lit up like Vegas casinos at night. And the stores are always located on interstates close to neighbouring states where those kinds of fireworks are illegal (such as Georgia). And they stay open 24/7/365

[Charles]

I think July 4th is the number 1 or 2 day for emergency room visits and the number 1 day for missing dog reports.

[Southlander]

Here in Decatur we had fireworks all over the city. The "big ones" at Point Mallard turned out to be only about 15 minutes long. One neighborhood, I heard, had their own (CityView Farms). We shot off some tonight as well as last night, and my brother's kids up the street did quite a few.
All over the city you could see plums, palms and sparklers!
I adore fireworks!