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Fireworks

Last year at this time I ran out into my neighborhood looking for fireworks, as I did in 2001. In both years, Anne worked so that I was by myself. This year she did not work on the fourth so we both walked out into the neighborhood and ran into the most impressive fireworks display I have seen in our neighborhood in some time. They played patriotic music as they lit twirlers from a ladder and shot roman candles into the air. Several times they lit a firework that sent rockets high into the air that exploded in a traditional firework fashion over and over again about a dozen times. It was an impressive display. Like last year, it was hot and humid, but less so than last year.

Some of these shooting fireworks went sideways and one went into the trees. So are these dangerous for people to do? I'd say yes, because these fireworks can shoot sideways at times. It's just the risk that people take to put on a good show. But why not go to a public display to avoid the risks? Because the traffic and parking situations at these public shows are usually horrendous. It can take 30 minutes to leave a fireworks celebration and sometimes hours of waiting around before they begin. These waiting times don't occur at home. So if you want to have people come to these displays rather than set up their own, fix the parking, traffic and waiting problem.