Fireworks July 3

[songkrai]

July 3, 2016

I have never ever in my many decades of Lakes Region living witnessed so many private fireworks on the night before July 4th.

Having purchased fireworks myself in decades past, I do know that the cost of fireworks can be quite high.

Something good must be happening to our economy for such great amounts of disposable income.

[Slickcraft]

It was a fabulous display watching from the west side of Welch. Often 8 to 10 simultaneous displays of the 20 or so larger displays. About an hour overall, all from the end of our dock.

[Winnisquamer]

Lately been finding the private shows are almost if not better than the town fireworks. Skipped the weirs show yesterday because of how many good private shows there was! Hope everyone had a great & safe weekend, and an even better 4th!

[Scott]

Weirs fireworks were killer last night.

[GTO]

Originally Posted by Scott

Weirs fireworks were killer last night.

Went by boat last night. One of their better shows. Just when you bought it was the end, there was more. Nice job

[Outdoorsman]

Originally Posted by songkrai

July 3, 2016

I have never ever in my many decades of Lakes Region living witnessed so many private fireworks on the night before July 4th.

Having purchased fireworks myself in decades past, I do know that the cost of fireworks can be quite high.

Something good must be happening to our economy for such great amounts of disposable income.

We have been doing this for about 7 years now. A rather large group of friends and family will pool our money together and ask the nice folks at Fireworks of Tilton what to buy with the money we have to spend.

One of the sales people will work with us, asking us questions as we walk through and explaining what is what in the fireworks world. We find that by pooling the money together, VS each family bringing something for the show, works out so much better. Of course they always throw in the "extra's" when we check out.

Edit:
I am sure all the fireworks businesses in the area work the same.

[phoenix]

A home owner in green's basin last night had the most incredible fireworks display. It went continuous for 20 minutes and twice he had a finale that was as good as a town.

[Pineedles]

Dumb question, I thought shooting off fireworks were illegal in NH?

[neckdweller]

Originally Posted by Pineedles

Dumb question, I thought shooting off fireworks were illegal in NH?

Only in some towns. If you look at this list, they are allowed in a lot of the lake towns. Wolfboro and Alton say prohibited but there's a minimal chance a private home's display on the lake is going to be shut down on the 4th of July weekend.

EDIT: We've been doing our own display at the house since we could start buying them in NH. No traffic, always a good seat and some of our neighbors have jumped into the tradition as well so we end up with a pretty good show in our cove.

[donmac]

Originally Posted by Pineedles

Dumb question, I thought shooting off fireworks were illegal in NH?

There have been private fireworks over the lakes as far back as I can remember. I recall my friend's camp back in the 60's having a pipe cemented into a portion of a dock, pointing up, angled just right, just for fireworks.

[Barney Bear]

Each year, our neighbors on East Bear Island treat us with a grand display of fireworks. One even triggers them remotely from shore. 💥 🎆

[Merrymeeting]

I know I'll be criticized for being a downer. But as much as I enjoy a good fireworks show, the increasing number of private ones going on all summer is concerning given new items such as this one.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/fireworks...010300064.html

And this, http://des.nh.gov/organization/commi...ents/bb-60.pdf

And each group will say, "how can my little show make a difference?". But when 1000 homes around the lake all say the same thing...