A Tribute To The Birth of Our Nation. A Few Grand Up In Smoke in 90 Minutes

[35Pete]

To honor our nations birth we had a hell of a party at Sukie's house last night.

About $4,000 in pyrotechnics went airborne in a little under 90 minutes. It was insanity. We had people from nowhere pulling up in SUVs, putting the tail down and watching Beruit go off in South Florida.

Ten guys dropping professional grade, hand grenade sized mortar shells, all at once for over an hour. $100 grand finales going off SIMULTANEOUSLY every 7 minutes for 90 minutes.

10-15 explosions, BIG explosions going off all at one time. Way way more intense than any public display. It was sensory overload.

We had over 1,000 pounds of fireworks, stacked 7 feet tall. Five, 5 galllon buckets of mortar shells, tons of other stuff.

We BLEW away our neighbors.

Quite possibly the most unbelievable private fireworks display anyone present has, or will, ever see.

Happy Birthday America.

[35Pete]

How much? About 20 lawn bags packed with ordnance.

Had it went off we would have blown Sukie's house to pieces and killed most everyone there. Whhheeeewwww!!!!

[TRIPLE P]

Sounds fantastic.

This was the first year I didn't personally blow anything up.

[г]

Did you set off any car alarms with the concussion ?

[sukie]

Surprisingly no car alarms went off. The shells were loud. The resulting color display was easily 100 feet in diameter each shell. Imagine 8-10 of those simultaneously. It was like a city display's grandfinale for 90 minutes.

[35Pete]

Surprisingly no car alarms went off. The shells were loud. The resulting color display was easily 100 feet in diameter each shell. Imagine 8-10 of those simultaneously. It was like a city display's grandfinale for 90 minutes.
It literally was.

Two neighbors walked up to me during the "battle" and coincidentally said the EXACT same thing. "I am in total shock!".

These mortar shells were EXTREMELY expensive and VERY VERY loud. Like an M-80 blast when they left the tube, imagine 30 blasts a minute.

Loud, smokey, and spectacular in the air. We had every neighbor in the area walk down the street to see this.

BATTLESTATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sukie]

Pete... we are definately doing it again. Robert the cop told me he doesn't care if it's 4-500 bucks... (his cut) he wants 3 hours minimum next year.

[Ru]

Sounds pretty cool. We had about a grand's worth at our party on Saturday (which others paid for). Personally, I never really got the whole fireworks thing. I mean, if I had a grand or more to spend for party favors, It'd be something slightly different.

Pete:No edit. Meant to quote instead. Sorry.

[35Pete]

Pete... we are definately doing it again. Robert the cop told me he doesn't care if it's 4-500 bucks... (his cut) he wants 3 hours minimum next year.
I paid $2,200 for all that, and gave my brother about $1,200 worth of stuff.

That is $2,200 for $5,200 worth of stuff.

I think we should shoot for $3,000 next year. That will get us about a $6,500 display. Pennies on the dollar when you walk in with thousands to spend.

[г]

I've only been stateside for one 4th of july weekend...1992 in San Diego. Navy towns know how to light it up.

I guess in Ft. Lauderdale, you could have the Village People sing 'In the Navy' to get somewhat the same effect ;)

[35Pete]

Sounds pretty cool. We had about a grand's worth at our party on Saturday (which others paid for). Personally, I never really got the whole fireworks thing. I mean, if I had a grand or more to spend for party favors, It'd be something slightly different.

Pete:No edit. Meant to quote instead. Sorry.
We were dropping a $1,000 worth into the air EVERY 15 minutes. It was that INSANE!!!

[nehemiah]

drunken, crazy, Polish, floridians with an arsenal and gun fetishes.

:rockon:

[sukie]

It'll take me a couple of hours, a leaf blower, shovel and broom to make my street NOT look like the Gaza Strip.