Paul Hogan: "That's not a knife...."
As friends of my journal know, my 4th of July week included some unique "fireworks", lol...
as it turns out, so did the 4th itself...
not only was my town chock full of LARGE fireworks (Really over the top this year. How many people drove to NH?!?)
but afterwards, my mother, sister and I looked from a high vantage point
at what must have been an incredible thunder storm.
It was very far --far enough away that we couldn't hear any thunder-- but the lightning was intense, almost constant, and the whole thing seemed concentrated in one area, and long-lasting.
(btw, no, we were not seeing a very distant fireworks display. We though that at first, too, until the lightning bolts started to become visible.)
Someone, far away to the south, must have had one heck of a 4th of July light show!
Speaking of which,
I'm guessing Facebook must currently be full of links to the video of San Diego's fireworks malfunction
in which a pyrotechnic glitch accidentally made ALL the fireworks explode at once,
creating fifteen seconds of explosive, smoky bad-assery followed by hours of extreme disappointment.
I saw more than one news source calling it a "disaster" for the event planners.
It was unfortunate and bad for business, and disappointed a lot of people, absolutely...
but Disaster?
Thankfully, no!!
For Disaster, see either:
1. the many people (adults and kids) badly injured at home by fireworks yesterday
or, if you want something closer to "woah!" rather than "depressing"
2. the "Seest Fireworks factory fire, in Denmark"
an event where one little mishap, a single box dropped by employees in a shipping truck,
caused a fire that ignited an entire factory and completely destroyed over 150 houses.
Incredibly only one man (a firefighter) was killed, but over 2,000 had to be evacuated.
In this footage, taken from a hill outside town...
you can see the resulting fire and evacuation. It also contains TWO actual shock waves,
both of which knock into the camera man,
one of which can be seen as a pulse of light radiating out from the factory around the 29 second mark!
For something really frightening (but also very sad)
try the Enschede Fireworks disaster.
as it turns out, so did the 4th itself...
not only was my town chock full of LARGE fireworks (Really over the top this year. How many people drove to NH?!?)
but afterwards, my mother, sister and I looked from a high vantage point
at what must have been an incredible thunder storm.
It was very far --far enough away that we couldn't hear any thunder-- but the lightning was intense, almost constant, and the whole thing seemed concentrated in one area, and long-lasting.
(btw, no, we were not seeing a very distant fireworks display. We though that at first, too, until the lightning bolts started to become visible.)
Someone, far away to the south, must have had one heck of a 4th of July light show!
Speaking of which,
I'm guessing Facebook must currently be full of links to the video of San Diego's fireworks malfunction
in which a pyrotechnic glitch accidentally made ALL the fireworks explode at once,
creating fifteen seconds of explosive, smoky bad-assery followed by hours of extreme disappointment.
I saw more than one news source calling it a "disaster" for the event planners.
It was unfortunate and bad for business, and disappointed a lot of people, absolutely...
but Disaster?
Thankfully, no!!
For Disaster, see either:
1. the many people (adults and kids) badly injured at home by fireworks yesterday
or, if you want something closer to "woah!" rather than "depressing"
2. the "Seest Fireworks factory fire, in Denmark"
an event where one little mishap, a single box dropped by employees in a shipping truck,
caused a fire that ignited an entire factory and completely destroyed over 150 houses.
Incredibly only one man (a firefighter) was killed, but over 2,000 had to be evacuated.
In this footage, taken from a hill outside town...
Click to viewyou can see the resulting fire and evacuation. It also contains TWO actual shock waves,
both of which knock into the camera man,
one of which can be seen as a pulse of light radiating out from the factory around the 29 second mark!
For something really frightening (but also very sad)
try the Enschede Fireworks disaster.