New Year's Eve

[tbiedl]

The way New Year's Eve is celebrated here is that everyone (well, not everyone, but plenty of people) buys their own fireworks, boomers, flashers, whatever. Then whenever they feel the time is right, they set it off. In other words, uncoordinated fireworks non-stop. Some people started as early as a week ago, but it really picked up yesterday

Comments

[gloriap]

Happy New Year and thank you for sharing the experience. I agree about the waste of money and the mess created, but tradition is important to many people, no matter the consequences. In many Denver Hispanic neighborhoods the tradition is to go outdoors at midnight and fire guns into the air without much regard for where the shells or bullets fall. I think the Austrian custom is safer.