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southpaw@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social |
Alright alright, I give. Most of the west coast is apparently a veritable war zone too. Where I grew up, we had really high wildfire risk, so maybe that’s why my memory isn’t of *all this.*
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Justin Vreeland
@jvreeland.bsky.social
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We have really high fireworks risk and people still do it.
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e.w. niedermeyer
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It's highly variable. I live in East Portland and there's almost nothing a few miles west of me, but go a few miles east and it's the war zone you describe.
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@copernicus.bsky.social
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There has been a significant change due to the pandemic -- canceled fireworks show led to a surplus and then it kept going. Fourth of July always had fireworks, but the week-plus is recent.
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Claire 🐝
@isolinearchip.bsky.social
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Literally texted this to my mom last night. It is 100% latent wildfire anxiety
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Mop Bucket
@mopbucket.bsky.social
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Fireworks spending is way, way up everywhere in the US over the last 25 years, with the Midwest in the lead
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Aaron
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I’m visiting family in Arcata and it was a wall of sound from around 7 pm until nearly midnight. During high fire risk, no less. Much worse than Philly.
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david kim
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yeah last night in sf, it sounded like competing fireworks shows but growing up in north/ northeast orange county there was just the one fireworks show and the echoes of disneyland.
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Elisabeth Van Every
@e-van-every.bsky.social
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I NEVER had to deal with fireworks when I lived on the East Coast. I now live just outside Seattle and there were giant explosions on my street from 4 PM until 2 AM. And they're banned but no one cares and it's not enforced.
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Joel Berger
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I live literally a mile from the burn area for the (current) most-destructive wildfire in Colorado. Two-and-a-half years later, you wouldn't know anything happened from how much stuff they were lighting off last night.
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Geek Grammy
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I live in a high wildfire-risk area (Western Colorado), and we had jerks firing off professional-grade fireworks ALL night last night. Not just one or two assholes, either. We counted at LEAST 7, and those were just the ones we could see from our front yard.
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Boaty McBoatface 🌈🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚩⛵️🛶
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I think it’s different than when I grew up in 70’s and 80’s. We had the community fireworks and one guy that was really good. Now tomorrow night my sister’s neighbor will have more than enough mayhem. And they won’t be the only ones. More people can get fireworks than back then.
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Will “Looking for a job” Smith
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We have a really high wildfire risk and people do it anyway. Our next door neighbor who is a firefighter has PTSD because of two decades of putting out grass fires every fourth.
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Blue Meme
@bluememe.bsky.social
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The wildfire risk has not decreased; the prevalence of dumbassery has increased.
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Nice Footpaws
@ionotter.bsky.social
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Los Angeles was, quite literally, registering on the Richter Scale...
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RalphEsq
@ralphesq.bsky.social
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Fireworks weren’t legal in AZ when I was a kid; same with IL when I was in college. So my first July 4 on the east coast was eye-opening! AZ sounds more like a war zone now; I do think it makes a difference that you don’t have to drive to New Mexico to get them.
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Warhammerchick
@celticdragon1.bsky.social
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Yeah, San Bernardino county banned fireworks for the most part
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Tracy Brooks
@mstbrooks.bsky.social
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I left Cali 3 years ago due to the all the wildfire and smoke and people still use fireworks there. It’s insane!!!
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Carol
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Don’t recall much in the way of neighborhood frwks as a Bay Area kid. More big official shows & watching Pops back east. Local fireworks tending more toward spinny/whizzy colorful low ground stuff than loud booms. Definitely more concern re setting weeds/etc on fire than v now w/ landscaped yards
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Dan Gates
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The town that I live in ended a wildfire watch at 8 pm on the 3rd and did a whole ass fireworks show at 9:30. It was quite the decision
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@lombos.bsky.social
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New Englander here; personal fireworks were illegal all my life until 10 years ago when we had an R gov & legislature made them legal. They've been much worse, louder & more days, this year. I like big public displays but not this! People must have lots of discretionary $$ to send them up in smoke.
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Aaron
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Lived in CA my whole life and it certainly feels like there are way more fireworks than there used to be, so I don't think you're totally off base
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Sara Goetz
@getsnotgoats.bsky.social
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I think the pandemic increased it significantly. People learned how easily they could get fireworks and never went back to lawful behavior.
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Nick Goede
@ngoede.bsky.social
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Definitely didn’t have it anywhere I lived in Southern California as a kid. We had some public fireworks obviously but the more spread out nature of the area meant I heard less of those too.
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Materialist Gnostic
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if it helps I grew up on the east coast and don't remember much by way of fireworks in my neighborhood (though many years we went to Kansas to do our own)
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