Happy Fourth of July!
Brief post today as I’m sure (hope) many of you are away from your computers today, grillin’ meat and veggies while swillin’ beer and water (recommended order).
This is the first Fourth of July in Maine where fireworks are legal. The State Legislature made them legal the last legislative session, so everyone has been swamping the few fireworks stores we have now. The challenge is finding someplace to light them though, because so many Maine towns went and banned fireworks after the state made them legal, so you have this mix of legal here, not legal there, patchwork of fireworks lighting opportunities. Even I went out and bought a few basic firecrackers, but mostly focused on simpler, more kid-friendly items like mega sparklers, morning glories, etc. They’ve got some pretty crazy fireworks out there, but damn they don’t give those things away! Expensive.
On a related note (fireworks, the 4th and prepping), in yet another reminder that we should be preparing for a solar-flare, EMP-type event, Solar fireworks might be coming your way for the 4th.
Check the link!
The sun sent out a flare powerful enough to disrupt radio communications over Europe today, along with an eruption of electrically charged particles that just might sweep past Earth’s magnetic field in time to spark a Fourth of July show of auroral fireworks.
Woah – a free “fireworks” display! I just hope it doesn’t fry the electrical grid and this be the last post you ever read as the planet falls into non-electric, post-grid apocalypse where the masses all run around like chickens with their heads cut off, screaming for safety from the human cockroaches that seeking to feed off them …. or something like that.
Anyway – enjoy the holiday!
- Ranger Man
Happy Independence Day To You and Yours!
That’s great for you folks in Maine, Ranger Man!
This will be the first year since I was a small child (1960s) that I won’t be lighting a fuse. Colorado has a state wide ban due to all of the wildfires here. But I’ll probably sit on my front porch tonight and make a little noise with my old Carbide Cannon :).
For you folks who can (legally) light an extra firecracker for us Coloradans. And say a prayer for all of the folks who lost their homes, were injured or killed by fires everywhere this Spring.
Happy Independence Day!
Cliffystones
There is a burn ban here in middle Tennessee. Going to watch a show though that got a permit. Don’t think the solar flare will wipe the grid out today. Maybe tomorrow, but we do need to prep for it. Hope everbody has a great day!
Happy Independence Day. Celebrated by preppin’. Me and mine slaughtered and butchered our 43 free range chickens. Kept most of them but gave some to naybahs. Gonna trade and barter some. Suits my self-reliant and libertarian lifestyle. Wondering about using some of those fiyah works for force multipliers, trip flairs and booby traps for security. Any ideas. PS
….. Rangerman, cut off A LOT of drum sticks for grillin’
and swillin’!!!
i’ve taken to wishing people a happy “interdependence day”.
the idea of not being reliant on society is such a foreign concept anymore…
Here’s a Firework Fail from my neck of the woods – San Diego, Ca. This draws 10′s of thousands to watch it, which is precisely why I don’t go.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guj_r-9X7jw
Well we lost power for 3 days. Good note husband willing to buy a generator. Bad news very cranky 3 year old (and mom) and $200 worth pf food in trash.