Other states fine without fireworks

I live in unincorporated Snohomish County, south of Everett, near Discovery Elementary School. If the county has any regulations regarding days and times when fireworks can be set off, they are never enforced in the area where I live.

The celebration started with scattered booms on Sat

urday night. It continued on Sunday night with a few scattered booms. But that was only the warm-up to the celebration on the Fourth. I could stand in my front yard and watch a display of fireworks in all four directions.

I was engulfed by a full 360 degrees of fireworks, smoke and booms. It started about 9:45 p.m. By 1:30 a.m. I thought it was over. However, one last boom went off at 3:38 a.m. There seems to be a contest between several groups to see who can keep going the longest.

This happens every year. In fact, people set off fireworks for New Year’s Eve and someone even set them off after the death of Osama bin Laden.

An hour’s worth of fireworks can be very beautiful. Hour after hour after hour becomes torture.

I moved here from Arizona where personal fireworks have been illegal for at least 40 years. Church groups, Indian tribes and private entrepreneurs have all survived without the income.

I am very sure that I am not the only person who dreads the Fourth of July nightmare.

Carol Sullivan
Everett