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waynescottmd@earthlink.net
July 6th, 2007, 12:40 AM
We have had less than 5" of rain in the past year. A mountain range from
5000 to 10,000 feet elevation reaches to less than 1/2 mile of my house.
There are no firework sales within 10 blocks of the hill side and no
fireworks could be set off in that area. I had a supply of melatonin which
is an excellent dog sedative ready if I heard the first explosion. There
was not one explosion Sara or I could hear. I am very grateful. Sara is a
small GSD, less than 60#. Our first GSD weighed a little over 100#. At the
first bang on July 4, Leonard came and got in my lap and stayed there. 100#
of terrified German shepherd is quite a load.

Wayne

If there are no dogs in heaven, then when I die I want to go where they
went.
--Will Rogers


> [Original Message]
> From: Bill Hirst <billhirst (AT) gmail (DOT) com>
> To: Dixonary <Dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com>
> Date: 7/5/2007 7:34:01 PM
> Subject: [Dixonary] Fireworks
>
>
> On Jul 4, 11:22 am, Toni Savage <tonicsav... (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:
> > Have a Happy 4th of July (especially happy for those
> > of us who get fireworks!)
> >
> Did we have fireworks? Oh, yes, we had fireworks.
>
> There are some odd laws in Florida. According to one law, you can only
> set off fireworks that shoot sparks up to five feet high. However, you
> can buy most anything, up to rockets that seem about half the size of
> a SCUD missile. (You are supposed to sign a form stating you won't set
> them off illegally.) So everybody signs the form, then sets off the
> rockets (illegally) in the back yard. It sounded like the battle of
> Bunker Hill all over again. One cat hid under the bed and didn't come
> out for four hours. You could see rockets red glare and hear bombs
> bursting in air most any direction you looked. The entire city was
> blanketed with smoke. http://tinyurl.com/2ttt5c
>
> -Bill
>
>

Toni Savage
July 6th, 2007, 06:00 AM
Fascinating! My nephew Joseph (who is spending the
summer with me) is a budding lawyer, and very
interested in fireworks laws (and other laws that vary
a lot from state to state)

Toni
--- Bill Hirst <billhirst (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

>
> On Jul 4, 11:22 am, Toni Savage
> <tonicsav... (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:
> > Have a Happy 4th of July (especially happy for
> those
> > of us who get fireworks!)
> >
> Did we have fireworks? Oh, yes, we had fireworks.
>
> There are some odd laws in Florida. According to one
> law, you can only
> set off fireworks that shoot sparks up to five feet
> high. However, you
> can buy most anything, up to rockets that seem about
> half the size of
> a SCUD missile. (You are supposed to sign a form
> stating you won't set
> them off illegally.) So everybody signs the form,
> then sets off the
> rockets (illegally) in the back yard. It sounded
> like the battle of
> Bunker Hill all over again. One cat hid under the
> bed and didn't come
> out for four hours. You could see rockets red glare
> and hear bombs
> bursting in air most any direction you looked. The
> entire city was
> blanketed with smoke. http://tinyurl.com/2ttt5c
>
> -Bill
>
>
>
>


-- Toni Savage
"Failure to plan on your part, does not constitute an emergency on our part"

Judy Madnick
July 6th, 2007, 08:20 AM
----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Bill Hirst" <billhirst (AT) gmail (DOT) com>

<< The
<< entire city was
<< blanketed with smoke. http://tinyurl.com/2ttt5c

And this time it wasn't from forest fires.

Judy Madnick
Jacksonville, FL

Judy G. Russell
July 6th, 2007, 09:18 AM
At the
first bang on July 4, Leonard came and got in my lap and stayed there. 100#
of terrified German shepherd is quite a load.

My last pair of cats were both congenitally deaf so were never bothered by fireworks (or thunder or vacuum cleaners or...). But the pair before that tried to burrow with the first rocket (and yes, fireworks are totally illegal in NJ, though you'd never think it...).

Lindsey
July 6th, 2007, 11:33 PM
I had a supply of melatonin which is an excellent dog sedative ready if I heard the first explosion.
LOL!! I was at my parents' house on the 4th, and just before 9 pm, someone started firing off a barrage of rockets in the triangular field down the street from them that sits between two converging streets. (I'm not sure even sparklers are legal in Henrico County.)

A little shooting off of noisemakers and Roman candles is one thing, firing off rockets in a residential neighborhood that is thick with trees is quite another, and I was a little concerned. It's been rather dry here, too, this spring and summer, and even though we had had some heavy rain a few days before, I still worried about the possibility of fire. I was relieved when my father, who had gone outside for a closer look at what was going on, eventually came back to report that a police car had just pulled up. I wondered if maybe it was the policeman who lives just a couple of blocks in the other direction from my parents' house...

I heard the next morning on the news that there had been a number of brush fires around the state from illegal fireworks, so it wasn't an unreasonable worry. Not to mention that they can be dangerous -- there were six separate incidents (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/05/AR2007070500924.html) in Fairfax County in which fireworks malfunctioned at professional displays, and nearly a dozen people were injured, a couple of them seriously. This is not stuff people should be setting up on the fly on a street corner.

Glad you didn't have to use the melatonin!

--Lindsey

Paul Keating
July 7th, 2007, 02:56 AM
In The Netherlands, it's only legal to let off fireworks between 10 am on
New Year's Eve and 2 am on New Year's Day. (Professional displays with
permits etc. apart.) I don't know of any other place with a law quite like
that.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Toni Savage" <tonicsavage (AT) yahoo (DOT) com>
To: <Dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com>
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 1:00 PM
Subject: [Dixonary] Re: Fireworks


>
> Fascinating! My nephew Joseph (who is spending the
> summer with me) is a budding lawyer, and very
> interested in fireworks laws (and other laws that vary
> a lot from state to state)
>
> Toni

waynescottmd@earthlink.net
July 7th, 2007, 03:05 AM
As a follow up, there was an article in the local paper that there had been
almost no police reports of fireworks in the north part of town, nearest to
the mountains.

Wayne

If there are no dogs in heaven, then when I die I want to go where they
went.
--Will Rogers

Tim Lodge
July 7th, 2007, 04:36 AM
In the UK, it is an offence to let fireworks off during night hours
(11pm to 7am), except on Bonfire/Guy Fawkes Night (midnight), Diwali,
New Year, and Chinese New Year (1am). We also don't generally have the
problem with brush fires that Lindsey describes, as it's usually
tipping down with rain on Novemeber 5th!

-- Tim L


On Jul 7, 8:56 am, Paul Keating <pjakeat... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:
> In The Netherlands, it's only legal to let off fireworks between 10 am on
> New Year's Eve and 2 am on New Year's Day. (Professional displays with
> permits etc. apart.) I don't know of any other place with a law quite like
> that.
>
>
>

Paul Keating
July 7th, 2007, 07:40 AM
In the northeast of London where I lived, around Guy Fawkes the bangs and
whizzes seemed to last for a solid 48 hours with sporadic outbreaks at all
hours anything up to a week beforehand.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Lodge" <iel7j001 (AT) sneakemail (DOT) com>


> In the UK, it is an offence to let fireworks off during night hours
> (11pm to 7am), except on Bonfire/Guy Fawkes Night (midnight), Diwali,
> New Year, and Chinese New Year (1am).

Toni Savage
July 7th, 2007, 08:13 AM
Actually, Hawaii has a similar law, partly due to the
large numbers of Chinese-heritage folks there.

I was there one New Year's in a modern suburban
enclave, and by midnight, you couldn't see the next
house, and the din was so deafening we couldn't hear
"Arsenic and Old Lace" on the TV!

The next morning, the street was 4 inches deep in red
paper (curb to curb!)

Far and away my most memorable New Year's!


--- Paul Keating <pjakeating (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

>
> In The Netherlands, it's only legal to let off
> fireworks between 10 am on
> New Year's Eve and 2 am on New Year's Day.
> (Professional displays with
> permits etc. apart.) I don't know of any other place
> with a law quite like
> that.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Toni Savage" <tonicsavage (AT) yahoo (DOT) com>
> To: <Dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com>
> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 1:00 PM
> Subject: [Dixonary] Re: Fireworks
>
>
> >
> > Fascinating! My nephew Joseph (who is spending
> the
> > summer with me) is a budding lawyer, and very
> > interested in fireworks laws (and other laws that
> vary
> > a lot from state to state)
> >
> > Toni
>
>


-- Toni Savage
"Failure to plan on your part, does not constitute an emergency on our part"

Tim Lodge
July 7th, 2007, 01:50 PM
Paul

We still get fireworks for several days around 5th November, but under
The Fireworks Regulations 2004, they are not supposed to be let off
after 11.00pm except on the day itself. I'm not sure who polices
that!

-- Tim L


On Jul 7, 1:40 pm, Paul Keating <pjakeat... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:
> In the northeast of London where I lived, around Guy Fawkes the bangs and
> whizzes seemed to last for a solid 48 hours with sporadic outbreaks at all
> hours anything up to a week beforehand.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tim Lodge" <iel7j... (AT) sneakemail (DOT) com>
>
> > In the UK, it is an offence to let fireworks off during night hours
> > (11pm to 7am), except on Bonfire/Guy Fawkes Night (midnight), Diwali,
> > New Year, and Chinese New Year (1am).- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

waynescottmd@earthlink.net
July 7th, 2007, 03:21 PM
Toni, Marion and I used to visit Hawaii a lot and spent several New Years
Eves there. As you say, the amount of torn red paper from the firecrackers
is unbelievable until you see it for yourself.

If there are no dogs in heaven, then when I die I want to go where they
went.
--Will Rogers


> [Original Message]
> From: Toni Savage <tonicsavage (AT) yahoo (DOT) com>
> To: <Dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com>
> Date: 7/7/2007 6:13:59 AM
> Subject: [Dixonary] Re: Fireworks
>
>
> Actually, Hawaii has a similar law, partly due to the
> large numbers of Chinese-heritage folks there.
>
> I was there one New Year's in a modern suburban
> enclave, and by midnight, you couldn't see the next
> house, and the din was so deafening we couldn't hear
> "Arsenic and Old Lace" on the TV!
>
> The next morning, the street was 4 inches deep in red
> paper (curb to curb!)
>
> Far and away my most memorable New Year's!
>
>