4th of July Fireworks?? No! They're cancelled! (updated thread, see post #12) (Rule: cul-de-sac, sale)

[Bo]

Originally Posted by corrie1013

Thanks Hedgehog Mom! So- what do you think about watching from the parking lot of La Cantera? Would that work too?
What's funny is that we see them from our apartment right now (Haven at the Rim) but we're building our house right now and should be closing and moving in right before the 4th.

The parking lots at La Cantera fill up for this. If you get there after 8, you'll have competition for parking.

[Bo]

The City of SA has officially canceled fireworks at the official July 4 Woodlawn Lake celebration and ALL OTHER public displays.

Lights out for Woodlawn Lake July Fourth Celebration | kens5.com San Antonio

The new fireworks ban went into effective immediately and includes displays held at SeaWorld, Six Flags Fiesta Texas and all July Fourth events.

[rd2007]

Sure are going to be a lot of bored people around 8 PM on the Fourth..

I see this as a very bad thing too, because they're just going to make up for it by lighting off personally owned fireworks in their yards and near MY YARD..

[ggeorgie]

Except for those neighborhoods that don't give a hoot about a fireworks ban!!
Can't stop them!!!!!

[Stabart47]

Originally Posted by ggeorgie

Except for those neighborhoods that don't give a hoot about a fireworks ban!!
Can't stop them!!!!!

I hope you are not condoning that way of thinking. I cannot stand people that think laws and rules are for everyone else to follow but THEM! I could not believe when we moved to SA and found out fireworks were allowed in a housing subdivision at all. Knowing our house it sitting down there is a neighborhood where it's normally miserable to be on the 4th, I'm glad they are cancelled!

[hadleyzoo]

They have been cancelled at Lackland as well. Lackland JBSA posted on facebook that they are following what the city has done but the rest of the event is still on and will still be open at 4:00.

[Lee W.]

That's fine with me. There's been too many people who lost their homes and even their life in the fires. And there's no guarantee that one rain we got would make any difference at all.

[StanStelle]

Can someone enlighten me as to what is the risk with professional fireworks? I would've thought they are much less riskier than a kid laying something on the ground, as instructed, and lighting it up.

I am not familiar with the composition of the larger fireworks. Does the shell that explodes way up there have a risk of falling while still lit? I've never seen it. Fiesta Texas sets them off nightly during their open season and I've never heard of any fires during our usually dry summers. I haven't been there this year, perhaps they have cancelled during this unusually dry season.

[rd2007]

I think it's yet another screw up by the people in charge here. Most aren't the ones I voted for..

[sleeptech210]

If you know what you are doing fireworks pose no issue... It's just the powers that be overreacting...
Like one stated before it's just gonna force civilians to go out and do there own show...