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Same in NC, but I am unsure if fireworks are sold from tents because they are pop-up stores, or for safety reasons, or maybe both?

In SC however it seems like "anything goes", with much larger fireworks being available, and where any major highway crosses into SC from NC, it seems like a warehouse type fireworks store gets built. .... Which maybe explains, (do not open if you're squeamish) in part at least, this unfortunate story where an SC resident totally out-did Florida for this year's most horrific firework accident. I think it is significant that news reports didn't say he was taken for treatment, or had any treatment, or even just that "he was declared dead at the scene". The report I first heard said simply "nothing could be done for him". :blink: :scaredhair: :sick:

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Our neighborhood had people shooting off fireworks the past four days. A couple of times it seemed like the explosion was more than standard fireworks.

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;)

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these all look small by US standards… I buy ones in NH that are 9x6” tubes… they are around $200 each… would look like pro ones in the UK…

we would spend $1-2k for a 4th of July display, it go so big everyone in the condo would give us money instead of going to the town display… took me 45 minutes to set them all off the last year I did it… the FIL was a VIP customer so we got buy one get one free on everything…
an example:
https://atlasfireworks.com/product/a...pyro-228-shot/

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That is odd because just before I purchased fireworks (The first time I have ever bought fireworks) to put in the communal batch for the 4th block party, I looked at the list of restricted fireworks in SC and assumed the monster rockets and mortars were coming in from NC. :lol:

And it's 'funny' that FloridaMan gets widely reported on but SC-Man barely registers on the media when he does something really stupid. When I heard that story my first thought was prime candidate for a Darwin Award and the second was just how stupid are the kids today - a reasonable assumption considering that it's the sort of stupid thing a hormonal teen might do to impress their mates and that one acquires wisdom as one grows older, but no, this idiot was in his 40's. The upstate 'dark corner' of SC has some very 'special' redneckery, which is odd because they should be hillbillies but most of them wouldn't want to be tarred with that brush...

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They're from 60 years ago.:nod:

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If there are larger fireworks sold to the public than the ones sold in SC, I don't know where people are getting them from. :unsure:

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Fresh fireworks woke better….

Just so any internet readers know that stupid is no restricted to FL…. We have some in CT as well….

Firefighters intentionally burn Shelton home full of fireworks

https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/...3323342/?amp=1

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zzrmark This is apparently a "value bundle" of firecrackers, but I don't know if it is available to a casual retail customer? :unsure:

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I'd expect more height and some colour from that monster.

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Looks fairly standard for where I live near the reservations in the PNW. It's pretty much a constant booming from sunset until 1am, then a little less during the night.

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No idea, I've never really been overly impressed by fireworks and I have zero wish to get closer than 50' to anyplace they are being set off. Call me odd, but handling explosives contained in cardboard tubes and wielding a lit flame with the sole intention of igniting said explosives strikes me as having disaster written all over it.

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And while we are still on the subject, a gas station I frequent regularly in deepest, darkest, Pickens County must have over stocked because after the 4th they cleared a space on the floor inside the gas station/diner to have a clearance sale.
Only marginally more stupid was the gas station worker who was cleaning the pump areas at my local town while I was filling up this last weekend, all the while a lit cigarette hanging out of her mouth. Something that I wouldn't be surprised to see from a customer (not that I ever have) but employees, even stupid ones, supposedly receive training and are probably told that heat sources and gas fumes aren't the best of bedfellows.

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I wouldn't say there's much of a 'dark corner' in Upstate South Carolina. Most of the region is pretty well integrated into the Greenville-Spartanburg industrial economy. The narrow strip of mountainous land along the NC border is mostly protected wilderness areas and state parks etc. IMO the true 'dark corner' of South Carolina is the southwestern part of the state-- Allendale, Bamberg, and Barnwell counties. Economically and socially the land that time forgot. Maybe there was some textile industry down there decades ago but it's long gone.

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I don’t doubt your assessment but the area I was referring to is a historical nickname given to the area that can best be described as Pickens and Oconee counties.
Greenville and the building in the mountains has changed the access and brought money in but there are still huge swathes in the upstate that still struggle with the loss of the textile industry,



My wife has just returned to our local high school after a year elsewhere and I’d forgotten how much of a shithole the place is. Despite the fact that the county has a lovely up to date courthouse/county admin building and there is a multi million dollar leisure center being built in the county the school has been forgotten about.
When she was first there three years ago the roof leaked and the concrete floors were shifting, breaking up the floor covering. The roof is only now being recovered, the floors are still a major trip hazard. The kids desks date from the 70”s and are falling apart, despite the custodians best attempts. I was in there last weekend fixing the ones in her class so that they are usable and I took pity on the teacher in the classroom next door and rebuilt his desk as it was in two parts and looked like a tornado victim, totally unusable as it was with both surfaces sloping at about 15degrees off horizontal.

I’m fairly certain that I could find similar throughout many of the non-urban counties in the state and many other places. Keeping somewhat within the bounds of the thread topic, I’m sure rural Florida has similar but I never saw anything that remotely compares as under invested my travels of the area between Naples, Ocala, Melbourne and Port St Lucie .