I hope you had a great Christmas and will enjoy a grand new year. I know those tents selling fireworks are more ubiquitous than CVS and Walgreen's right now, but before you decide to try a homemade fireworks show, I hope you'll consider your neighbors.
We have 268 units in close proximity and exploding fireworks anywhere will affect all of us who live here, whether they want to share in the revelry or not.
Pets, including my own, get terrified by the noise, and there is no way to calm or explain it to them. July 4 is the date that animal shelters see the most stray dogs because panicked animals take off.
New Year's Eve must run a close second.
I won't bother to talk about how setting off fireworks actually breaks the law, unless you run a farm or own a fish hatchery, which at last check no one here does.
I will, however, note that we just paid more than $40,000 to have our roads resurfaced, and if someone damages it, they'll get to pay for another coat of coverage. And this ain't the cheap stuff you buy at Lowes.
If you cannot ring in the new year without ringing your ears with explosions, I hope you will find an empty parking lot nearby or maybe the empty field at the front of the community near US-301. That would put at least a little space between the cacaphony and people who don't want a front row seat.
Please be safe.
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