"Sherry" wrote in message
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On Jul 1, 5:07 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?

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Hugs,

CatNipped

I'm no expert by any means, but it looks to me like the professional
fireworks
displays go so high in the air that embers really don't reach the
ground. And
for any ground effects they do, they'll have firefighters present
"just in case."
Hopefully they'll mow and further prep the area too. I don't really
like fireworks
in any shape or form, but for the kids it's like banning Christmas.
They so
look forward to it.
Our state/county in all its wisdom passed a ban on the *use* of
individual
fireworks. You can still sell them, and buy them, but you can't pop
them.
Dumb.
Like I said, I hate fireworks even under wet conditions. They scare
the
cats and upset the livestock. If any of my neighbors do it, I totally
plan
on ratting them out. There's a hundred acres of waist-high dead
prairie grass
between us and them. Way too dangerous.
Sherry



I live in Northern NJ. There are organized fireworks on the 4th, but the NY
Police Commissioner was just on the radio, warning NY residents not to drive
to Pennsylvania to buy fireworks. Private fireworks are illegal in NY, and
he specifically said that people who cross the border to buy illegal
fireworks will be arrested and their cars will confiscated (as they do in
drug cases).

Jay