chepar
Contributor
Happy New Year!
Had a quiet weekend, except for New Year's Eve - and I don't mean I partied like a rock star, either.
You guys remember the news story about some Matson containers with those professional aerial fireworks that was broken into - and how the fire department was very concerned about them being set off by "non-professionals"?
Well, some of those idjit non-professionals live one street over behind my parent's house.
Every New Year's eve our family gets together at my parents' house - the kids do some supervised (and legal) fireworks, we eat, drink a little and hang out. At midnight we burn some firecrackers. So this year we're watching the strings of firecrackers burn at midnight, and then we start hearing these huge BOOMS behind us.
We turn around and there are these HUGE aerials going off up above the roof. It's hard to judge how high they were, but it must have been pretty close, considering that the entire sky behind us was covered by one aerial. These were definitely the professional type you see going off at shows and not the regular manini aerials you typically see.
The booms from the fireworks were so loud that you could feel your chest vibrating when they went off - and the windows in the house rattled. These guys had quite a bit and they set them off all in a row. At first it was "Wow" - then I got a bit concerned since these things were not getting very high before they went off. Luckily no one's roof caught on fire.
I heard one of the neighbors yelling that they were going to call the cops - but I don't know if they ever showed up, since it was the street behind us.
Had a quiet weekend, except for New Year's Eve - and I don't mean I partied like a rock star, either.
You guys remember the news story about some Matson containers with those professional aerial fireworks that was broken into - and how the fire department was very concerned about them being set off by "non-professionals"?
Well, some of those idjit non-professionals live one street over behind my parent's house.
Every New Year's eve our family gets together at my parents' house - the kids do some supervised (and legal) fireworks, we eat, drink a little and hang out. At midnight we burn some firecrackers. So this year we're watching the strings of firecrackers burn at midnight, and then we start hearing these huge BOOMS behind us.
We turn around and there are these HUGE aerials going off up above the roof. It's hard to judge how high they were, but it must have been pretty close, considering that the entire sky behind us was covered by one aerial. These were definitely the professional type you see going off at shows and not the regular manini aerials you typically see.
The booms from the fireworks were so loud that you could feel your chest vibrating when they went off - and the windows in the house rattled. These guys had quite a bit and they set them off all in a row. At first it was "Wow" - then I got a bit concerned since these things were not getting very high before they went off. Luckily no one's roof caught on fire.
I heard one of the neighbors yelling that they were going to call the cops - but I don't know if they ever showed up, since it was the street behind us.
