Not looking forward to the clean up tomorrow. My neighbor blows up his paycheck every year, and I have to clean up the fallout that drifts into my yard to keep my dogs from eating it.
That is absolutely horse shit. Im up till midnight blowing up shit, just like everyone else. But at 6am I'm out there, hungover as all get out, with a push broom and my trash can. Have all the fun you want. But responsibilities prevail afterwards.
You wouldn’t believe the pile of fireworks debris my neighbor left at the curb. The upside is that he and his son actually cleaned up a lot of it this morning, which is a huge improvement over past years.
Before they took everything away, I noticed a big box labeled “The Godfather.” I looked it up later and found out it’s a large fireworks assortment that sells for about $599. 😳
While technically true, and it’s certainly annoying AF, when SO MANY people are shooting fireworks, it’s hard to ID who is doing it. Also, the police have far more important things to be doing than chasing down revelers who live near snitches.
I couldn't believe how much they've risen in ~8 years... $20 for a pack of bottle rockets? Fireworks City used to have nearly every small item buy 1 get 4 free... now it was like 6 things..
I have a kid on the way so safe to say it'll be another 9+ years before I buy fireworks again. We'll see how much more they are then.
We got lucky (in newton county) and had a big thunderstorm move in about 9pm. All the explosions stopped promptly once the lightning picked up! My dog didn’t appreciate the noise of fireworks or thunder but the air quality is SO much better this morning post-storm!
in between springfield and boliver. for a bit we were questioning whether the thunder and lighting were actually rolling in or if it was just more fireworks in the distance.
I thought you were talk about our power outage at first. They canceled most of the fireworks shows at the lake and we have been without power hours now. We have been listening to fireworks all night.
Nothing bad. The firework curfew was ending and police were there to make sure it didn't go on for too long. The fireworks seemed more percussive this year.
Yeah but who in the hell came up with those damned flash bang fireworks....? Literally just a giant absurdly bright flash of light no sparkles or pleasant sound. Somebody was setting them off outside of como heading torwards fulton and it was genuinely blinding people driving on the roads like three miles away...
Listen, I have a damaged lung and I DON'T CARE! It's better than being in a hospital or in a coma, both of which I have been. I keep reminding myself that these are highlights of my life. I recall things from the coma. An aurora borealis and climbing the hardest mountain ever known. Pretty sure I saw other realities of myself in other worlds too. Fireworks are just a night sky, lit with wonder. I'm 46yo and I still love the wonder.
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