Wim, About 18 months ago, I was in Honolulu on the 4th of July, another really big firework night in the islands. I remember taking off about 9:30 pm headed for LAX and the airport weather was reporting smoke as the obscuring phenomena. As we climbed out, I remember seeing all of Honolulu, from Ewa Beach and Pearl Harbor all the way to Hanauma Bay completely obscured in smoke from a couple miles out over the ocean up to the mountains in the north. Everything had an eerie glow about it, like a foggy night. They really know how to do fireworks over there... Enjoy your respite! Hau'oli Makahiki Hou! Rob McCall McCall Piano Service, LLC www.mccallpiano.com Murrieta, CA 951-698-1875 On Dec 31, 2010, at 20:10 , tnrwim at aol.com wrote: > > Hi Gang > > Well, it's almost 2011. Here in Hawaii, the tradition for New Year is fireworks, an LOTS of them. Last year the fireworks started at about 6, and it was pretty noisy. But that was nothing compared to what happened at midnight. All of our neighbors came out and set off bottle rockets, firecrackers, sparklers, etc. etc. Not only was the noise deafening, but the gun powder smoke was unbearable. It lasted about 30 minutes. > > So as to not have that same experience again, in a few minutes Jan and I are going out to dinner, and then we have reservations at a motel at the airport. Not only are there no houses near by, I figured the airport would not allow any kind of aerial firework. We'll be in the morning to asses the damage. Hopefully our house will still be standing. > > For what it's worth, so many people complained about the fireworks last year that the county council has banned the sale of fireworks, (not setting them off), starting January 2, 2011. From what I've heard, more permits and more fireworks were bought for this year than even before, not only to set them off this year, but rumor has it that a lot of people are saving them for next year. > > Happy New Year. > > Wim & Jan > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101231/8d0c699e/attachment.htm>
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