Banning Fireworks?
Well, here goes another social media battle in my area.......should we ban personal fireworks? For the last year, I've had to watch social media friends fight about mask wearing and whether to get the COVID 19 vaccine. Now people are fighting about fireworks. We are in a loooong drought (weather forecasters say it's the worst drought in the last 1200 years.) Yikes! Things are so dry that we have had record breaking fire seasons, year after year. Many of the states around us are also parched and have numerous fires burning, so we get their smoke along with our own forest fires. And those of you who have read my posts before know that Son #2 ended up in ICU during one 4th of July weekend - all thanks to smoke from neighborhood fireworks. So, it's probably clear that I'm NOT a big fan of fireworks. I'm just not a fan of breathing in all of that smoke containing heavy metals. And knowing that air quality often reaches toxic levels during the 4th of July weekend.