As I predicted, last night was like being in a combat zone...lots of BIG fireworks last night. Our littlest dog (>6 lbs)goes freaking nuts over this stuff, while the bigger dog (11 lbs) ignores most of it. Some of the "BOOMS" were big enough to rattle windows and light up the night sky.
The guy who throws the annual party had a decent display, but was outdone by the Mexican neighbor 2 doors down who had the biggest "home display" I've ever seen. Some of his "sparks of awesomeness" went several hundred feet into the sky...more like professional grade than the stuff you buy for home use. He owns a "party and jump house" business and throws a big party for most holidays.
The noise went on until at least 2 a.m.
Yeah, we didn't stop blowing shit up until just about 2am.
Had some of these mortar shells that were sold to us under the notion that they could be heard 4 miles away. We were like, k... we'll take two sets. We both had other brands of shells to throw up in the air as well, but we wanted to see if the noise was true.
We were right under them, and not sure if they could be heard
that far away, but they were the loudest shells I've ever personally lit.
Once the little kids went to bed/went home, and it was just us guys, we started doing the fun shit. Ended the night with two of those big boomers in the same tube, earlier had some fairly loud ones triple stuffed in a tube. Those were great.
The best was the one that was pointed
down into the tube. We were hooting and hollering when that one sent sparks all around us.