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OT - Fireworks?
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? -- Hugs, CatNipped See all our masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped See the RPCA FAQ site, by Mark Edwards, at: http://www.professional-geek.net/rpcablog/ Email: L(dot)T(dot)Crews(at)comcast(dot)net |
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"CatNipped" wrote in message
... 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? -- Hugs, CatNipped That's been the case in Southern California for years. Most cities ban personal fireworks, but have fireworks shows. There is much less danger of a well orchestrated fireworks show causing a fire than there is when individuals shoot them off in the streets or their backyards. I've never heard of a fire caused by a fireworks show. I have heard of many house fires and bush fires started by use of illegal fireworks. Joy |
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On 07/01/2011 04:25 PM, Joy wrote:
wrote in message ... 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? -- Hugs, CatNipped That's been the case in Southern California for years. Most cities ban personal fireworks, but have fireworks shows. There is much less danger of a well orchestrated fireworks show causing a fire than there is when individuals shoot them off in the streets or their backyards. I've never heard of a fire caused by a fireworks show. I have heard of many house fires and bush fires started by use of illegal fireworks. Joy One thing the "powers that be" don't even consider is "air pollution. For that reason (and many others) I am against it. MLB |
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On Jul 2, 12:49*pm, MLB wrote:
On 07/01/2011 04:25 PM, Joy wrote: *wrote in message ... All sales on fireworks have been banned this year in and around Houston. |
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On 07/02/2011 01:20 PM, hopitus wrote:
On Jul 2, 12:49 pm, wrote: On 07/01/2011 04:25 PM, Joy wrote: wrote in message ... 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? -- Hugs, CatNipped That's been the case in Southern California for years. Most cities ban personal fireworks, but have fireworks shows. There is much less danger of a well orchestrated fireworks show causing a fire than there is when individuals shoot them off in the streets or their backyards. I've never heard of a fire caused by a fireworks show. I have heard of many house fires and bush fires started by use of illegal fireworks. Joy One thing the "powers that be" don't even consider is "air pollution. For that reason (and many others) I am against it. MLB You have perfect right to "against it" and air pollution is a reality but I know where you are and you know my whereabouts as well....and LOL I guess SLC is not smelling the stinking smoke from the wildfires here (not around MileHigh) and in AZ....it blows all the way up here when the wind is right (SSW). My bad to consider a liittle cloud of gunpowder smoke a drop in the bucket of pollution around here. Having zilch to do with anything practical.....some of my happiest memories are riding home from a 4th extravaganza with singed hair, blackened beyond laundering clothes, and smelling of mortar charges and gunpowder we were forced to ride in the truck bed all the way home (Pismo Beach boardwalk, 1983). Dear Hop: It is not the individual fireworks I am against -- it is all of them all over the world making a mess of what (long ago( used to be fresh air. It is a drop in the bucket, I know, but that bucket is already full. |
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"CatNipped" wrote in message ... 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? -- Hugs, CatNipped Banned. Totally. Texas does not need more fires, even tiny ones, in this difficult year. I've seen the horrible news photos. Also, since this is a cat group, I read somewhere that cats are notoriously frightened by fireworks, both by the lights and by the noises. Not that any cat lover would think of placing a cat in such a scary setting. I assume this is true? Jay |
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J J Levin wrote:
Banned. Totally. Texas does not need more fires, even tiny ones, in this difficult year. I've seen the horrible news photos. Also, since this is a cat group, I read somewhere that cats are notoriously frightened by fireworks, both by the lights and by the noises. Not that any cat lover would think of placing a cat in such a scary setting. I assume this is true? I've been with friends and their *dogs* at fireworks times and the poor things were cowering under beds or desks, etc. One of my friends always used to take her dogs to a place out of town every July 4, that wasn't near any fireworks, just so they wouldn't have to go through that. But my cats are pretty much oblivious to firecrackers and big fireworks booms. Maybe an occasional ear twitch after a particularly loud sound, but that's about it. Then, back to sleep. Joyce -- It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same. -- Unknown |
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We don't open our curtains after dark, so my cats have never seen fireworks,
but they don't appear to be bothered by the noises (thank goodness since our idiot neighbors spend thousands of dollars in fireworks at least twice a year). -- Hugs, CatNipped See all our masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped See the RPCA FAQ site, by Mark Edwards, at: http://www.professional-geek.net/rpcablog/ Email: L(dot)T(dot)Crews(at)comcast(dot)net "J J Levin" wrote in message ... "CatNipped" wrote in message ... 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? -- Hugs, CatNipped Banned. Totally. Texas does not need more fires, even tiny ones, in this difficult year. I've seen the horrible news photos. Also, since this is a cat group, I read somewhere that cats are notoriously frightened by fireworks, both by the lights and by the noises. Not that any cat lover would think of placing a cat in such a scary setting. I assume this is true? Jay |
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CatNipped wrote: We don't open our curtains after dark, so my cats have never seen fireworks, but they don't appear to be bothered by the noises (thank goodness since our idiot neighbors spend thousands of dollars in fireworks at least twice a year). "TWICE a year"?? July 4th and what else? Cinco de Mayo? Guy Fawkes Day? |
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