Fireworks are for the young at heart.
Sorry about your heart.
Down here in Florida, there are so many redneck backyard firework displays, you don’t need to go to the big shows. We just drive around until we find a pyro redneck. We don’t usually have to drive too far.
Nobody goes to fireworks shows anymore.
They’ve all gotten way too crowded.
There are thousands of small towns across America that put on fine fireworks displays with out the hassle.
Move to South Carolina, you’ll just have to go out in your yard!
No Large Crowds for me any more ever...People are too F’d Up
Next phase — you’ll be sitting on your porch yelling at the neighborhood kids to “Get off my lawn!”
I go. Music, live and canned, fireworks, seeing friends, meeting politicians, food, fun.
I live in FL. Supposedly fireworks are only legal for “agricultural” means and they are sold all over.
A few grumps hate them. I love them.
I have found that most people are quite considerate. It’s almost orchestrated - only a stray pop here and there, but suddenly it’s 9 o clock and blossoms of fireworks are everywhere. They go like mad for 2 hours (the people next to us had, I swear, almost professional ones - they covered the entire sky!).
Then after about 11:30 the pops get sporadic. By 1 there’s barely anything. You might hear a few tonight, but not many. And that’s it.
For 3 lousy hours a year I think people should be able to deal with it.
Come to Manhattan. Nobody drives to the fireworks here.
You seen one you’ve seen them all.
The older you get, the less impressed you are by them. I’ve been over them for a long time.
I live in DNC land.
What’s this 4th of July you mention?
I’m sorry you didn’t enjoy it. Auburn, AL had a nice fireworks display. We left the house about 20 minutes early and it took only 5 minutes to get there. Drove to the event, walked over to a good spot, sat down and waited. The fireworks commenced at the proper time, lasted around 15 minutes. Then, we walked back to the car. The trip home was 10 minutes.
We enjoyed it.
...you have to get there 2 hours early ...you can view the event. ...it takes you 2 hours to get out of the parking lot. ...I don't have the patience for this anymore
If it's me doing all this, then why don't you have the patience for it anymore?
We went to shows on 2 different nights.
Saturday we “tail gated” afterwards with libations, grub, and lots of bug spray.
For the other, we made a mad dash just as the finale started and were one of the first out of the lot.
So you can be sure that entire ridges don't light up with colored fire on July 3,4,5.
And you can be darn sure there weren't any exploding pyrotechnic devices on my property ...
We gave ‘em up years ago. We’ll watch stuff from afar, which is cool in itself, but I don’t do “high human density” events in the Seattle area.
That said, I did the one last year by our farm in Kentucky and it was a blast. So many of us know each other to one degree or another that it’s kind of like a family event. The crowd is also smaller and although the congestion is just as bad, it’s only for a couple of blocks and then you’re fine. :)
Pretty much everything is a lot more fun in rural areas. Everything is more, uh, real.
Amen my fellow (old?) person. lol I sopped going years ago. I love ‘em, but it takes many an hour just to get there and get home and that’s just not for me anymore.
Give me a good sparkler and a back yard. =)
2 hours in and 2 hours out??!!
I don’t blame you for not going. Where did you attend the event? In Central Park NY City?!
My town (about 18,000 residents) has July 4th fireworks sponsored by the local chamber of commerce and free ice-cream in the park behind the public library. You can walk, or park your car down the street. Bring a lawn-chair and a blanket. People know each other, and kids can play while adults visit with each other. Its a conservative town, rather Normal Rockwell-esque and I love it.
I’m convinced that if the FEDs and even State Gov’t ceased to exist, we in our town could come up with a solution to nearly every problem we could ever face. Local Gov’t was how America became great - and how we once used to govern ourselves in this country.