Fireworks Safety
Tomorrow is our big USA national holiday - July 4th.
It celebrates the day we, as colonists, decided to stop putting up with
tyranny. I asked a UK citizen yesterday if they've gotten over it yet. He sort of mumbled.
Anyway, lots of people set off fireworks at home.
The home displays rival some professional ones as MANY people up here at the lake shoot them off. Thousands of dollars go up in smoke here around my lake every year.
Two years
ago my neighbor set my yard on fire down at the shoreline of the lake with one of his fireworks. There were a bunch of dried leaves and pine needles that covered the ground. It could have started a serious brush fire but didn't.
Years ago a similar thing happened at my in-laws house.
We set off a spinning saucer thing and it set a dried bush on fire next to the house. I was
STUNNED at how BIG and how FAST the bush went up in smoke.
Fortunately the house was brick and nothing happened.
In the time it took us to react, get the garden hose in position and turned ON, it was TOO LATE.
Here's my list of tips:
- Wet down ALL dried
landscaping
- Keep the hose out, ON and CHARGED ready to go
- Move cars away from fireworks
- Don't set neighbors houses on FIRE
- Try to use common sense
Other than that, have a BLAST and be safe.
I'll be back next week.
I'm working all weekend on the roof.
Oh, I'll share a pretty cool story about my first two real days back on the train as a Conductor.
Yes, I'm a real conductor on a real train.
Here's the story tease:
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Tim
Carter
Founder - www.AsktheBuilder.com
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