Comments on: july 4th in lincoln is hard to explain

By: mom

mom — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:45:41 +0000

Things have changed in Maryland a bit. You can buy sparklers in the grocery stores and 7-11. We now have firework stands that go up about a week before the holiday. One is in the shopping center up the street. We have lots of loud pops and bangs on the 3rd and 4th in the neighborhood, but don’t get the neat kind of display that you do, because we have TREES and hills!!

By the way it’s “Buy one get two free at the moment.”
Don’t know what happened to the legal part of it.
I do love to watch them though!

By: Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:12:09 +0000

Fireworks in FL are illegal unless you are using them to protect your fish hatcheries from birds – I’m not making that up! It totally explains the hundreds of fireworks stands that appear around the 1st of June (and Christmas, too)…we have at least a week of fireworks surrounding every major holiday! Very strange for a MD girl whose experience has always been that you must actually leave your backyard to see things explode!

We went to a real show this year on the beach, and had a view of hundreds of pro and non-pro shows all up and down the coastline! Pretty amazing!

By: Sarah M

Sarah M — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:56:54 +0000

Hey Julie, I forgot to leave you this before: http://lpd304.blogspot.com/2008/07/will-it-work.html

Stefan reads The Chief’s Corner (Police Chief Tom Cassidy’s blog) and he said that all fireworks that go “pop or bang” (i.e. all except sparklers) are illegal…however they can only ticket so many people in one-two nights. They said they’d be harsher this year with it, too. Hopefully none of your neighbors got a ticket!

By: Sarah M

Sarah M — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:02:57 +0000

Our neighborhood was insane this year. For a solid 2 hours (9-11pm) every window in our house lit up every few seconds, followed by a loud thundering boom–it sounded like we were in a war zone!