Happy Fourth! (Embedded videos)
How Savannah celebrates the Fourth: stuff gets blown up over the waterfront and down on the beach.
Posted by Joe852963741. River Street, 2006. (1:21 minutes)
SNAP CRACKLE POP BOOM (includes "patriotic" cop car sirens whooping in the background. Welcome to Savannah!)
Posted by jusafaze. Tybee Beach, 2006. (2:04 minutes)
WARNING: Loud crowd noise.
PROTIP: Turn sound off, play something less tardly instead.
Mousebombs: Disney park fireworks 2005 (1:00 minute)
How the Motherland blows stuff up all purty: London's New Year display 2007 (3:19 minutes)
The Guinness World Record for the largest fireworks display was achieved on Madeira Island, Portugal, on 31 December, 2006 by Macedo´s Pirotecnia. (3:02 minutes)
From our friends in Japan: this is the world's largest type of firework, launched 9/Sep./2007 in Katakai Niigata, Japan. (0:49 seconds)
GEEK STATS:
Size: 48 inches (120cm) diameter shell.
Weight: 930lb (420kg).
Altitude: Half mile (800m).
Burst altitude: Half mile (800m).
Flaming chrysanthemums: This was the most expensive and largest fireworks show in history. Poster scohen88 says: "By dumb luck, I was on the 55th floor of the Conrad Hotel in Hong Kong on July 1st, 2007 over looking Victoria Harbour on the 10th Anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong to China. Truly wonderful." (1:01 minutes)
How I will celebrate the Fourth:
If I can't get out of it, I will be railroaded into helping my mom unpack and "admiring" her completely unnecessary new condo that is causing everyone in the family so much stress and hassle. Plus I'll be the one recruited to go grill meat outside with the mosquitoes and 90+ degree Fahrenheit temperatures. DO NOT WANT.
If I can avoid that, my neighborhood is having a shin-dig and my neighbors are cranky with me for being a hermit. I may get dragged out of my house to celebrate. I can haz sparklers. Woo! This has potential to be entertaining.
If I can get out of those two demands on my busy social calendar (LOL), I'll be going with friends to mingle with loud, drunken, xenophobic rednecks at Tybee (that's the negative side). Plus sides: greatly enjoy hanging out and having fun with friends, and there will be lots of stuff going boom. :)
P.S. I can haz DSL nao! Yeyz!
Click to viewPosted by Joe852963741. River Street, 2006. (1:21 minutes)
SNAP CRACKLE POP BOOM (includes "patriotic" cop car sirens whooping in the background. Welcome to Savannah!)
Posted by jusafaze. Tybee Beach, 2006. (2:04 minutes)
WARNING: Loud crowd noise.
PROTIP: Turn sound off, play something less tardly instead.
Mousebombs: Disney park fireworks 2005 (1:00 minute)
How the Motherland blows stuff up all purty: London's New Year display 2007 (3:19 minutes)
The Guinness World Record for the largest fireworks display was achieved on Madeira Island, Portugal, on 31 December, 2006 by Macedo´s Pirotecnia. (3:02 minutes)
From our friends in Japan: this is the world's largest type of firework, launched 9/Sep./2007 in Katakai Niigata, Japan. (0:49 seconds)
GEEK STATS:
Size: 48 inches (120cm) diameter shell.
Weight: 930lb (420kg).
Altitude: Half mile (800m).
Burst altitude: Half mile (800m).
Flaming chrysanthemums: This was the most expensive and largest fireworks show in history. Poster scohen88 says: "By dumb luck, I was on the 55th floor of the Conrad Hotel in Hong Kong on July 1st, 2007 over looking Victoria Harbour on the 10th Anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong to China. Truly wonderful." (1:01 minutes)
How I will celebrate the Fourth:
If I can't get out of it, I will be railroaded into helping my mom unpack and "admiring" her completely unnecessary new condo that is causing everyone in the family so much stress and hassle. Plus I'll be the one recruited to go grill meat outside with the mosquitoes and 90+ degree Fahrenheit temperatures. DO NOT WANT.
If I can avoid that, my neighborhood is having a shin-dig and my neighbors are cranky with me for being a hermit. I may get dragged out of my house to celebrate. I can haz sparklers. Woo! This has potential to be entertaining.
If I can get out of those two demands on my busy social calendar (LOL), I'll be going with friends to mingle with loud, drunken, xenophobic rednecks at Tybee (that's the negative side). Plus sides: greatly enjoy hanging out and having fun with friends, and there will be lots of stuff going boom. :)
P.S. I can haz DSL nao! Yeyz!