I will add…I really liked the fireworks over the Princess castles at Disneyland and Disneyworld. You could be far enough away to enjoy them.
Hartford used to have fireworks over the CT river. There were several places to watch from afar, and you could listen to the symphony on the radio (long time ago, clearly) while the fireworks were going on. I liked those enough too.
The noise is what bothers me.
And I hate the ones done in neighborhoods.
They seem so fun and harmless, right? My dad bought them for us, too.
I think they should be banned-- sparks flying out from them can cause eye injuries.
I love big fireworks displays but hate fighting crowds to get there. Our little city display used to be great. You could go to our center and sit on the lawn and be home in 10 minutes. It was a big festival like family atmosphere. You’d see everyone you knew and kids would run around and play. I loved that they were right overhead and loved the noise and smell. But then the city realized they didn’t own the land they shot them from. It was railroad property. So they moved them. Seeing them now is just awkward and our kids are grown so we don’t go.
I love the big displays and when we visited older S one year in DC. We stayed at the key bridge Marriott so all we had to do was walk outside and on the bridge. That was fun.
Neighborhood stuff. Nope. Don’t care for it at all. I’m always paranoid someone will lose a finger or eye or something.
I don’t really care, but my dog sure does. He shakes like a spin cycle. That makes me anti-fireworks, especially when they’re going off well past the 10:00 cutoff time dictated by the city. I need to get my dog outside – stop.
Of course fireworks are terrible for the environment and a waste of money, but I still love the city displays. We go sit on the beach and can see the displays all up and down the Long Island Sound. The days and days of fire crackers and the neighbors who send them over our houses? Those, I really, really hate.
Our town display is over the ocean, and the explosions silhouette all the boats. It’s very pretty. We don’t go now that the boys are older, but we always went and sat on the beach when they were young.
Our dog isn’t even remotely bothered by fireworks. I’ve taken her out to watch the lunatics around the corner from me do their best to blow their fingers off and set the neighborhood on fire. I’m not a fan of their nonsense, but I’m not opposed to it 1 or 2 nights a year.
Love fireworks shows. Hate that the teens are letting off fireworks all day and night. It’s definitely worse than in previous years.
Yesterday at 5 pm someone set off a bunch of fireworks, not just sparklers. Of course, the sun doesn’t set until close to 9. What a waste of money.
I enjoy seeing them, but I don’t care for the homegrown displays in the neighborhood that will occur on any given evening consistently between now and Labor Day weekend. With the scheduled events, I can plan to be home and sedate my dogs. The worst is when we’re on a walk a mile from the house and a random firecracker goes off and then my dogs hyperventilate and panic pull toward home.
We were super lucky that our dog was totally unfazed by fireworks. He could have become a great police dog as loud noises did not terrify him. When the neighbors were setting off fireworks in their backyard (dumb idea!), he would sit on the deck listening and jump up only if something appeared in the sky above our green fence. To him, a fireball in the sky was a creature that needed to be chased out, so he barked and ran towards it and looked confused when the invader would disappear. It was quite hilarious. Our other neighbors had to drug their dog… sadly.
I like watching big city firework displays. Had a fun time watching July 4th fireworks from a Boston rooftop once. Enjoy our small city fireworks but sadly this year there might not be any. Growing up they were on the beach which was great.
Hate the neighborhood fireworks especially neighbors–not a fan of any fire near my house that’s not in a grill with meat on it.
My dad and aunt almost set the house on fire once with a “twizzler” that went the wrong direction–it shot between them, leapt up in the air and landed on the roof. Thankfully a ready hose and very short lived. But memorable!
I grew up going to firework shows and the whole family adored them. As someone once stated, there might as well be a creative use for gunpowder. But as I grew up in a state where it was a city event only, I am fascinated by the smaller displays on streets here in the Midwest, as well as the few big fireworks relatives once set off in a Nebraska field.
But I am not so enamored of the injuries, dog terror, and that they tend to go on for days in my current home city. I still love a good fireworks display, especially in a natural park in my city where they were right overhead. Now they have moved to an urban stadium and there is less appeal, though will walk down to the lake and watch distant shows in other communities nearby.
My kids tend to not care as much, which I find interesting.
I grew up in SoCal and we could see the Disneyland fireworks from our backyard. They were pretty far away, so we could see them but not hear them. They shot them off all summer long, so it was NBD on the 4th except we got sparklers. On a down note, my MD daughter says the number of patients that come to the hospital from fireworks injuries is crazy.
As I said, I enjoy a professional fireworks show, but I understand the arguments against them. I saw an amazing drone show last year, and I would consider that a good alternative.
I enjoy a professional display on a specified time. But I am at the beach every 4th of July week and people shoot off all sorts of fireworks every night for about a week. I have seen the remnants in the yard and on the roof the next day.
Our late dog was an absolute wreck with fireworks. The last few years of his life we would have to go to the basement and turn the dryer on and put a thunder shirt on him and that usually ended up drowning out most of the noise. I would plan to do it on the night of the official display, but I got pretty upset when people would randomly start shooting them off a week before the 4th or Memorial Day or Arbor Day or whatever little day they thought needed explosions.
When I was growing up we had two dogs that were frightened by firework explosions. Our vet prescribed doggy tranquilizers which we gave them every 4th. They didn’t have a care in the world!
A few years ago one of our neighbors was setting off huge fireworks from the backyard. There is the interstate (with a noise breaking wall) then the light rail tracks, then the yards. I’m sure those big boomers were causing trouble with the trains and with cars on the highway. But the most trouble was with my brother’s dog. Brother lives 3 houses away. He came home and heard his dog crying. Dog had climbed UNDER his Porsche because he was so scared. This dog had been hit by a car years earlier and had trouble with his back legs, so while he could scramble army style forward, he couldn’t back out from under the car and the front of the car was too low for him to get out.
At 1 am my brother had to jack the car up to get the dog out. Lots of swearing and crying from both the dog and brother. Luckily, those people moved back to Virginia.
I like the big community planned ones, but hate neighborhood random ones. Terrified grand puppy even with drugs. Not only dogs, veterans with PTSD also badly affected.
Rain predicted tonight which will keep neighborhood ones down, but people bought them and will shoot them off randomly the rest of week.
Well, it did not take long… 
In my paper today:
Am I the only one who thinks Red’s parents are absolute jerks here? The dad, at least, seems fully aware that their fireworks scare their dog, and acknowledges that it’s a good thing the kid cares about that, but still they’re about to set off their own fireworks!
My son had lots of ways to find trouble when he was a teenager but I never had to worry about fireworks after he went to Explosives Camp at Missouri S&T. Just to bring a college connection into the discussion.
