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First time in 70 years I am experiencing no fireworks on July 4 in America. This is Tampa, FL. It is very quiet.
July 04, 2023 | Self

Posted on 07/04/2023 5:52:11 PM PDT by 4Runner

If you don't know what you are celebrating, why make any noise about it?


TOPICS: Education; History; Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: areyouloggedin; fireworks; florida; hughandseries; july4th; retarded; vanity
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To: 4Runner

Reporting in from Putnam county NY.

In spite of the rainy weather we have had fireworks for four days now and tonight it seems the most.


21 posted on 07/04/2023 6:07:30 PM PDT by shoff (Vote Democrat it beats thinking!)
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To: AndyTheBear

We’re 20-30 minutes north of Austin in Williamson County. Heard quite a few late last night, but it’s been quieter than I recall in the five summers we’ve been here. To be fair, the early high temperatures in June (many 100+ degree days) and the lack of rainfall here in Central Texas has exacerbated the fire danger with dry trees, shrubs, and weeds.


22 posted on 07/04/2023 6:08:08 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: 4Runner

Here’s some for you. Fireworks start about 38 seconds in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlbCakDfXfE


23 posted on 07/04/2023 6:08:45 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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To: 4Runner

You can stay here we’ve had 4 days of fireworks 💥


24 posted on 07/04/2023 6:09:06 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: perfect stranger

Now it’s quiet again.


25 posted on 07/04/2023 6:11:10 PM PDT by 4Runner
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To: mware

Spent a glorious summer in Pemberton back in the ‘80s. B1’s used to fly right over the house. Read Tom Brown’s book the Tracker. Learned about the Jersey Devil. Learned a bit of carpentry too.


26 posted on 07/04/2023 6:12:28 PM PDT by Track9 (You are far too inquisitive not to be seduced…)
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To: NWFree

Past few days here in central Minnesota (yes minnesota) as well.


27 posted on 07/04/2023 6:12:32 PM PDT by cableguymn
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To: NWFree

I have been hearing fireworks since the night of June 26th here in East Tennessee...


28 posted on 07/04/2023 6:13:10 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: perfect stranger

There’s lots of mobile home parks in that area full of veterans. Hillsborough County has veteran border jumpers. Cartels are wondering, WTF is this all about?


29 posted on 07/04/2023 6:14:03 PM PDT by 4Runner
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To: AndyTheBear

I’m on the coast south of Houston. Stocked up on Tramadol for the dogs and have yet to hear a single firework, weekend included.


30 posted on 07/04/2023 6:14:10 PM PDT by txeagle
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To: AndyTheBear

Neighborhood started well before dark.... just dusk and they’re blasting all over the place already.


31 posted on 07/04/2023 6:14:40 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: 4Runner

There are more fireworks outside my house than ever before. Charlotte NC


32 posted on 07/04/2023 6:15:29 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Track9

Pemberton huh?? Yep, that’s deep in the Pines. I’ve lived here all my life (70) years. I was 40 before I found out I had an allergy to pine trees. Explained why I always got a cold at Christmas.


33 posted on 07/04/2023 6:18:21 PM PDT by mware
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To: 4Runner

Sorry they’re not in your area. In our small town in MA they’ve been exploding for days and still are, as I type. Must be private as well as town celebrations. And the day is still wet.


34 posted on 07/04/2023 6:18:28 PM PDT by mairdie (Grandfather Jack Bell - miner, reporter, lawman, naturalist - https://youtu.be/Dnnb63UEk9c)
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To: 4Runner

This is the fourth straight night of fireworks in the area around where I am right now in central PA. Some towns have their fireworks on the Saturday before the 4th, some on the Sunday before the 4th, etc.


35 posted on 07/04/2023 6:19:22 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I've just pissed in my pants and nobody can do anything about it." -- Major Fambrough)
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To: 4Runner; All

Fireworks - Beethoven’s 9th - I made this back in 2018, but fireworks are still fireworks.

https://youtu.be/cHboDhFT9dc


36 posted on 07/04/2023 6:20:18 PM PDT by mairdie (Grandfather Jack Bell - miner, reporter, lawman, naturalist - https://youtu.be/Dnnb63UEk9c)
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To: FreeReign; 4Runner

Just started here too (NE Pa).


37 posted on 07/04/2023 6:21:39 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: 4Runner
Had some lightning and some quite loud thunder. Viet Nam had lots of air strikes and assorted Howitzers firing over our heads. TET was a bit exciting with hundreds of rockets coming in. A Helicopter got hit and sounded like hail on a tin roof. UP close and personal I got shot at with a RPG and ran over a anti-tank mine. You are right it is quiet being a civilian.
38 posted on 07/04/2023 6:21:56 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well those that did not make it back.)
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To: 4Runner
11 years ago on July 4, the annual Big Boom fireworks show in San Diego, intended for a 17-minute display, discharged prematurely and simultaneously and the entire cache exploded in less than a minute:

https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1676164327366164480

39 posted on 07/04/2023 6:22:01 PM PDT by TChad (Progressives are in favor of removing healthy sex organs from children. Conservatives oppose this.)
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To: 4Runner

It’s illegal to shoot fireworks off in my county, but the county allows fireworks to be sold. Go figure...

So what happens? People shoot fireworks off. One year the cops showed up down the street, no tickets or anything but the fireworks ceased. The cops haven’t showed up since.

I have a couple of steel blackpowder salutes, they provide a hearty BOOM. But I’m not throwing money at fireworks.


40 posted on 07/04/2023 6:23:47 PM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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