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Happy Independence Day to all our American members.
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Thanks! Somebody forgot to inform our neighbors, who've been blowing off fireworks for two nights now.
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Fireworks? I get this. Firing guns into the air.
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sc00ter wrote:
Fireworks? I get this. Firing guns into the air.
Ooh. Not nice.

Funny, was just thinking of places in the world where people celebrate with bursts from AKs and the like.
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fledermaus wrote:
Ooh. Not nice.

Funny, was just thinking of places in the world where people celebrate with bursts from AKs and the like.
You should hear New Year's Eve here in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. It literally (and I mean literally) sounds like a war zone.

For Independence Day(s) we get intermittent large ordinance for several days. It's startling until we get used to it.
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sc00ter wrote:
Fireworks? I get this. Firing guns into the air.
Yikes!
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Fireworks were always 'off in the distance,' or 'a few neighborhoods over,' in most of the places I've lived.

Here, we have a neighbor a few houses down that must spend a small fortune on fireworks... the large mortar, should be part of a city display kind. The mere sound of them being launched indicates serious business that is will unfold a second or two later.

It's fun for the first half hour or so after dark.. then I begin to feel the same way about them as I do the trick or treaters that knock at your door past 9:00.
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Lucky you. I've only ever lived in a 3 million person city. My front and back yard is always littered with other people's firework shells during the summer. I chuck em all over my neighbor's fence, return to sender.
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fledermaus wrote:
Ooh. Not nice.

Funny, was just thinking of places in the world where people celebrate with bursts from AKs and the like.
You mean like Miami, FL?
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It's been sounding like world war 3 around here and I live in a very rural area…
Happy Independence Day everyone!
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mpfrank wrote:
You should hear New Year's Eve here in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. It literally (and I mean literally) sounds like a war zone.

For Independence Day(s) we get intermittent large ordinance for several days. It's startling until we get used to it.
I feel for people dealing postwar PTSD. Guessing medication comes in handy.
I remember reading a book talking about returning WW2 vets going through Colorado on a train and happening on shell firing for avalanche control. Every soldier was on the floor. Can't imagine sitting through hours of that....
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in a northern suburb of Chicago where I worked for over 20 years, called Highland Park, this morning at the 4th of July parade, a person opened fire from a rooftop killing 5, injuring another 25-30. Highland Park is a nice peaceful suburb, if I was still there as a working surgeon I would have been called in to help, retired and living in AZ not. I am so sad. Sorry to post this and I will not get political. This holiday was always such a happy event, I remember when my kids were little we always got together with friends and family for a BBQ to go to watch the fireworks. So very sad, sorry I posted this.
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LarryMK wrote:
So very sad, sorry I posted this.
Sad day for Highland Park, sad day for America.

All I can say here....
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fledermaus wrote:
Sad day for Highland Park, sad day for America.

All I can say here....
agree a sad day
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Too many sad days.
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