re: #284 prairiefire

My family is off to the fireworks tents in Riverside. Gun powder plugged into cheap paper tanks, houses, etc. Our first 4th I had to shield my daughter with my body against the Delft Dutch house that went nuts and was coming at us!
It turns into some kind of pagan asian festival by the time I hollar for them to come in on the 4th, around 11:30pm. Smoke, lit punks everywhere, the sound still reverberating from all the noise. The kids stumbling around.

The first time we did a fireworks show, it was with the cheap cardboard mortars that you can buy at fireworks stores of questionable legality. One of the tubes blew out and launched its projectile directly at our audience.

The very next year, we were professionally trained by the Pyrotechnics Guild and purchased a set of HDPE mortar tubes. No more blowouts or near-misses.