Fireworks for the 4th of July

[calendria]

                July 4 plans for viewing fireworks??

[countrygirl12]

No but idiots have been shooting fire crackers in the area for several days already.

[Nancy5]

I dread 4th of July.  It's great our city has fireworks and we have a huge amusement park that sets them off also.  What I hate is the fireworks, small cannon shooting and the yelling and screaming from neighbors enjoying setting them off.  Just go to one of the two places that are free and watch them there, not close to my house!

[cathy37]

I haven't been to a fireworks show in a long time.  Last year it was raining and got postponed and then I wasn't able to go.  I love a good fireworks show.

[debidoo]

We always had fireworks for July 4th we were out in the country and could have our own but not where we live now and with my mobility issue I doubt I will go out to any displays.  Oh well we will see what happens.

[gwilson31]

The town that I live in has their fireworks display on New Years Eve,  but the town next to ours has a display on July 4.  On New Years Eve I see the fireworks from my back deck.

[jkhanson]

Our town has a small fireworks show over the small lake.  A nearby town has a large display.  Depending on my work schedule, I hope to see one or the other.

[DEBMZ6]

The military post here always puts on a big fireworks show for the 4th of July, so my family and I go there every year!

[countrygirl12]

They done a big display at our court house lawn one year a long time ago.  We could see it from home so we watched it.  I don't like getting out and going somewhere. 

[ccandpam]

My Three Sons always buy a Mountain of the real good Fireworks. I can not wait to see them having a Blast and giving all of us a real Good Firework Show.

[Tresbn00]

July fourth is in the middle of the week this year which is kind of a bummer because you have to go back to work the next day...no heavy partying and explosives (such a good combination!).It is kind of like having your birthday in the middle of the week or on Xmas-you can't celebrate in an unrestrained fashion.  Our neighborhood turns into a pseudo military zone with each neighbor spending more than the next. I have estimated that some people are dropping over three thousand dollars on Aerials, mortars, bottle rockets and fire crackers-none of which are legal in our state. My kids started stockpiling fireworks about a month ago. We live in Colorado and have to drive up to Wyoming to get the good fireworks. The police have a true dilemma because who do you arrest when over ninety percent of the neighborhood is engaged?

[countrygirl12]

July fourth is in the middle of the week this year which is kind of a bummer because you have to go back to work the next day...no heavy partying and explosives (such a good combination!).It is kind of like having your birthday in the middle of the week or on Xmas-you can't celebrate in an unrestrained fashion.  Our neighborhood turns into a pseudo military zone with each neighbor spending more than the next. I have estimated that some people are dropping over three thousand dollars on Aerials, mortars, bottle rockets and fire crackers-none of which are legal in our state. My kids started stockpiling fireworks about a month ago. We live in Colorado and have to drive up to Wyoming to get the good fireworks. The police have a true dilemma because who do you arrest when over ninety percent of the neighborhood is engaged?

They can go house to house writing citations.

It is against the law in the city in my county but they don't say anything usually the whole week or so of July 4th.  And won't any other time unless people are complaining.  And then they just tell them to stop.  It is aggravating for people who have jobs and have to work when the neighbors are shooting the huge fireworks that sound like a bomb going off and rattle your whole house.  And the ones doing it usually have spent their whole welfare check on fireworks and are just going to lay in the bed all day the next day.

[plennis]

There are several displays in our area, we can usually see from out yard the high stuff, just not the little displays.

[UGetPaid]

We have a large show every year at the amusement park in town which is typically synchronized with patriotic songs played on the local radio station. The park sits away from town on a peninsula - so many people travel to the waterfront downtown to watch from a distance.  GREAT view, but the sounds from the firework explosions are nil to none if you watch them off park.


There is always a HUGE traffic jam afterward. I can take a few hours to get out of the park if you are unlucky because there is only one road in and one road out. Driving home from downtown is busy also, but not nearly as bad.


So if the holiday falls mid week and we don't have the 5th off, we generally just stay at home. We still have crazies all over the neighborhood who set things off all through the night, which is frustrating, but better to be home and trying to sleep than stuck in traffic with no shot at all of sleeping.

[judylucas]

None for me this year