I certainly enjoyed seeing Grim's posts around Independence Day, and while I've done a few small town Independence Day events and enjoyed them thoroughly, Los Angeles actually has a pretty good time on the Fourth as well- in fact, it turns out you can see it from space, and it's spectacular:
NASA was kind enough to post this little video on X, which is where I caught it.
We live in the hills, so with the high fire danger we don't launch any fireworks ourselves, but we can go up our back hill and have a nice view out over the city and we watch the neighborhood below put on a show for us all night long. Started before sunset and didn't end until well after midnight. The dog's aren't so keen about it, but we enjoyed it.
For once I had something to be proud about living here in L.A. and had to post this.
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My mother’s local fire department posted on Facebook: “We were largely unsuccessful in our public safety messaging leading up to the 4th. Last night resembled a war zone.”
L.A. might have outstripped a lot of warzones in raw tonnage of explosives. Been like that since Covid when everyone had no shows to go to so everyone put one on at home. Quite the backfire for the officials.
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