America is running out of fireworks

[conuly]

Hallelujah.

Comments

[conuly]

Well, there doesn't seem like you've got a shortage of toilet paper until you've used up your last roll and there's none in the store, does it?

[marahmarie]

Assholes around here were still setting them off tonight and are probably not done yet (only legal, starting this year, to set them off on the 4th, not before or after, but around here they start up to a week early and sometimes don't run through them all until nearly August).

I don't get the idiocy of setting off huge boomers so powerful they have back-kicks in a densely populated neighborhood with all wood-frame housing on stilts on ungraded mostly-sand.

Between the sparks, flares and vibrations it's just asking for trouble (it rained copiously on the 4th though not steadily so they set them off between storms).

And the smoke clouds afterward on the 4th drifting into our parking lot? Now I read they contain lead. Nice stuff we're breathing in there.