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  msisk6
  I recently moved to the St. Louis area for a software job at Boeing. I'm actually in a nice quiet neighborhood in St. Charles right under the flight path for planes landing at Lambert Field.The fireworks last night were insane. All around me folks were setting off commercial grade fireworks bursting hundreds of feet in the air. The house was shaking, my dogs were freaking out, one of them had a seizure. The air was filled with smoke and smelled of gun powder. It was one of the craziest things I've ever experienced.Next year I'll definitely be planning an out-of-town vacation for the 4th to some location with firework restrictions.I don't know what the planes were doing; I didn't hear or see any landing with all the smoke and noise.
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  cogogo
  Off topic but I went to a local town’s medium-sized professional fireworks show this weekend and there were none of those small flash really loud fireworks that shake you to the core. Not even in the grand finale. Oddly they are what I enjoy most. Have they gone out of fashion or do they mess too much with pets?
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  bluedino
  They really should be controlled a lot more - a nearby house was hit by some sort of Roman candle thing and completely burned down the other night.There was at least a lot less "illegal fireworks" when people had the drive two states away to buy them.
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  userbinator
  Delta said Sunday a post-flight inspection showed no damage to the aircraft.Not surprising, as a firework is designed to disintegrate and the outer surface of a plane is not flammable. Bird strikes are probably a higher risk.
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  OsrsNeedsf2P
  Am I the only one who thinks the risks are worth the reward? People are celebrating, kids are having fun. Yes a few people blow their hands off, but are we going to remove everything, one by one, in the name of safety?
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  ButlerianJihad
  Fun fact: “Midway” is also the name of an American manufacturer of video and pinball games, and a Pacific theater of war in World War II, the most important victory in US Naval history. (The airport took this name in July 1949, according to the English Wikipedia.)https://web.archive.org/web/20080414001228if_/http://www.fly...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Cup_Soccer_(pinball)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Tigers_(video_game)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampage_(video_game)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_2:_Judgment_Day_(ar...It’s also the name of a district/neighborhood of San Diego which takes its name from Midway Drive, particularly where it intersects with Rosecrans St.Okay, “Midway” is a lot of things.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midway
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  zamalek
  I loved playing with fireworks as a kid, and surprisingly have all appendages and senses intact, I even considered pyro as a job - so I definitely get the appeal.I just think it's time that we left it to the professionals. Unless you are engaging in science or physics, I don't see the value in letting them off yourself.~~It's also weird that America's birthday is celebrated using a Chinese invention.~~ Edit: bad point, I stand corrected.
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  comrade1234
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• linzhangrun
  Anti-aircraft artillery...