On Jul 1, 4:07*pm, "CatNipped" wrote:
All sales on fireworks have been banned this year in and around Houston.
The chance of more wild fires and the danger to homes is too great to risk
even a "sparkler" to ignite the draught ravaged foliage. *That's perfectly
understandable to me - why take the chance of some dumb@44 setting the city
on fire.

However, they're still planning a "Freedom Celebration" in Houston and some
surrounding cities. *Huh? *Are their fireworks somehow different from
privately owned fireworks? *Are the parks and other places they're planned
somehow spared from the draught? *There is still a big "debate" about this
going on, but as of right now, the celebrations are going to go ahead as
planned.
What do you think? *Should city-run fireworks be banned also, or allowed?
CatNipped
Your questions: 1.Yes they're different, LOL.
2. No, but city and county parks are usually regularly *watered* and
maintained
by their municipalities so yes, they are not as tinderbox dry.
3. Municipalities fireworks displays (we have a lot here as personal
fireworks either
possession or display will land you in the slammer with a huge fine)
are coordinated
(the beautiful displays combined with appropriate musical tributes)
and carried out
by *professinals* who do not, like the natives, blow off their
extremities with foolish
Duh actions while celebrating (with and without alcohol intake).
I used to be a rabid fireworks participant as laws in south FL are lax
and rarely enforced
for private detonating. I would spend two hundred bucks on the 4th and
New Years (I was
working then). My kids loved the "ground crawlers": the "tank", the
"spider", etc. much
more than what I liked: two stage mortar (that'll blow your head off)
and bottle rockets.
Get out and take in your nearest municipal display Monday: you won't
be disappointed.