I do so love Independence Day. Swimming in the pool, grilling some burgers, and blowing stuff up. :lildevil: We made a shopping trip today to stock up on goodies. Come next Friday it's on!

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Chip off the old block. :cool2:

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eta: yeah I moved them away from the hot water heater after the pic. :thepan:

haha
its actually illegal to have them within city limits here. the cops came on the air and said they'd follow cars who buy fireworks at the county stands to see if they drive to a house in the city...then ticket them.

Before Pennsylvania changed their laws, we used to make a yearly trip down to the Carolinas to pick up our 'works for the year to come... luckily we just go across the bridge these days and just have to make sure we don't get caught coming back! Although we've found if we leave NJ going into PA, we'll just loop down and come back from DE....

Granted, We don't wit for July 4th to set them off... all holidays (including a 12-shot salute for Arbor Day) are game - in fact, any day is a holiday when you've got fireworks! They just have the innate ability to turn any bad day into a really good one...

If you dig a fifty gallon drum sized hole, place a stick of dynamite with an electric cap at the bottom, put a drum of gasoline in the hole and set the dynamite off from a safe distance it produces an explosion and mushroom shaped cloud that looks amazingly like a nuclear blast. C4 works even better than the dynamite if you knead as much thirty weight oil into it as it'll hold. This slows the blast down and ensures that the gasoline ignites.

I envy all of you.

California sucks.

They are illegal here too Spyder.
When I was a teen in MO I wished I had more money... I used to LOVE fireworks.
Now we just try to find a good spot to go watch them.

I am trying to figure out how to get my son over by Arlington so we can watch the fireworks on the Mall this year since it is on a Friday.
I hate taking Metro but it looks like we might do that.

2 years ago some kids burned an old man's house down when their rockets landed on his roof.
Bottle rockets were my favorites as a kid. We were lucky we didn't do the same thing.

2 years ago some kids burned and old man's house down when their rockets landed on his roof.
Bottle rockets were my favorites as a kid. We were lucky we didn't do the same thing.

I always have no less then 2 fire extinguishers on hand for this reason.

Beer and fireworks can provide more disasters in less time than almost anything with the possible exception of tequila and firearms.

eWill3rd, Back in the 50's Virginia and NC were the Mecca of fireworks importers into Maryland. Tyson's Corner (gas station and fruit stand then) was particularly good during June-July.

After Thunder Over Louisville (held in April to kick off Derby Festivities) all other fireworks shows are a waste of time and effort. 62,000+ shells fired in roughly a half hour.

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It is the 1 thing that town does worth a shit.

I kinda liked the show over Baghdad on the first night of Desert Storm.

We saw the DC fireworks display a couple years ago from the 7th floor balcony of a hotel about 2 blocks from the White House, it was neat but I would have preferred not to be so far away and some buildings were in the way.

I am not sure why VA thinks they should be illegal, with the weather they have here it shouldn't really be a fire danger issue like it is in CA where they don't see a drop of rain after April and before October.
By July all the stuff that sucked up rain all winter and grew like crazy is tried out and just looking for an ignition source.

I miss them, but not so much that I feel like breaking any laws.
In MO you can buy fireworks (good ones) year round if you show them an out of state driver's license... at least it was that way when I was a kid.

They are illegal in MN too, I heard because people had problems fishing with 1/4 stick of dynamite (they forget to throw the dynamite into the water sometimes) and it since dynamite looks like firecrackers they outlawed them. :lol:

I love 4th of July! My buddy got an M10,000 last year and we took it to a school field nearby and blew it up. That thing was LOUD! Shook the ground and put a hole in the ground. :thumbsup:

Here's a pic comparison of an M80 and M10,000. :D
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http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c196/DoctorLe/MISC-%20PARTY/4thofjuly038.jpg

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I do so love Independence Day. Swimming in the pool, grilling some burgers, and blowing stuff up. :lildevil: We made a shopping trip today to stock up on goodies. Come next Friday it's on!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v305/rolex/photo-1-2.jpg

Chip off the old block. :cool2:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v305/rolex/photo-9.jpg

eta: yeah I moved them away from the hot water heater after the pic. :thepan:

Dang man that's awesome perhaps I will see them from my home in Iowa lol. :eek:

I kinda liked the show over Baghdad on the first night of Desert Storm.

I did too I was shocked and awed. :hide: