Fireworks

Please be careful when shooting that garbage off this weekend. It's dry as a bone here and one dumba.. is all it takes for the whole place to go up in flames. Also if you must shoot them off how bout cleaning up after yourselves!!! I'm tired of people trashing up this area.(see Smiling Joes piece on Beach leftovers) Would've been better for our County Officials to install a ban on fireworks since it's so dang dry here but we know who they all work for!

Walton County Commissioners did issue a ban on fireworks unless one obtains a permit (ie those given to the big shows). However, they will not do anything to enforce it. They can throw you in the slammer and fine you, but we all know that only obnoxiously drunk @ssholes who shoot the illegal fireworks will be looked at if anyone.

Most of the fireworks seen in SoWal being shot from the beach are illegal to begin with -- hasn't stopped anyone yet. To prevent it, we would need about 500 cops on the beach arresting people.

Walton County Commissioners did issue a ban on fireworks unless one obtains a permit (ie those given to the big shows). However, they will not do anything to enforce it. They can throw you in the slammer and fine you, but we all know that only obnoxiously drunk @ssholes who shoot the illegal fireworks will be looked at if anyone.

Most of the fireworks seen in SoWal being shot from the beach are illegal to begin with -- hasn't stopped anyone yet. To prevent it, we would need about 500 cops on the beach arresting people.

SJ,

I'm in favor of letting the 4th of July trash lie on the beach after the fireworks show. If the locals don't clean up the mess, then maybe the visitors will complain to the businesses, the businesses will complain to the Chamber, and the Chamber will complain to the Commissioners who have the power to do something about it. That's my plan and I'm sticking to it.

Maybe I'll do a clean up on the 5th and leave the trash at the TDC office.

Doesn't anyone find it interesting that the County has decided to ban something which is already illegal?

Jan:

Feel free to leave the trash beside any of the 300+ trash receptacles that we empty daily along the beach and save your trip to the TDC ;-)

Jan:

Feel free to leave the trash beside any of the 300+ trash receptacles that we empty daily along the beach and save your trip to the TDC ;-)

:nono1: Brad, please don't feed us animals. Please do not do that. I see too much crap, usually broken chairs, tents and floats beside the beach trash cans waiting to be blown away. Can you imagine making a pile of fireworks debris on the beach just waiting to be blown around for a second crew to pick it up.

If you pick it up, take it off the beach and place it in the garbage. The TDC is not the ones at which to point fingers in this case. The problem is the lack of staff enforcing the existing laws.

Last night, we had a great mini-show of fireworks next door to Alys Beach. If the cops didn't stop them, they sure is heck are not going to stop 10,000 of them tomorrow.

Never thought I would say or think this, but its time the cops put a stop to the July 4th party on Grayton Beach. Most of the fireworks are illegal, very dangerous for hundreds of children and adults in the middle of it all, and all the resulting trash and damage to the beach environment is not worth it.

If the County is going to ban illegal fireworks, then I hope they will show up and enforce.

Wish we could enjoy a relaxing sunset at Grayton Beach on the 4th! We'll have to wait til after the holiday, then we'll have to clean it up before we can enjoy it. The trash is always unimaginable! Kurt will be cussing and cleaning for hours...:roll:

Stopping it altogether is impossible. In addition to Grayton Beach, the roman candles will be going off ALL up and down 26 miles of beach (except maybe the state parks). Also, the 331 causeway is very popular. My best guess would be to enforce the ban on the causeway because they are all in one spot and if the dry grass flares up, it will get ugly on 331 - and then everyone on duty would be there dealing with traffic.

I hate to see all the trash too, but at least the beach isn't flammable.

Doesn't anyone find it interesting that the County has decided to ban something which is already illegal?

Not at all. You know those things they sell in the parking lot at Wal-Mart in DFS that smoke & twirl and shoot LARGE amounts of sparks? Those are legal in Florida - and I would think they would pose much more of a fire threat than the illegal fly-up-in-the-air stuff.

Not at all. You know those things they sell in the parking lot at Wal-Mart in DFS that smoke & twirl and shoot LARGE amounts of sparks? Those are legal in Florida - and I would think they would pose much more of a fire threat than the illegal fly-up-in-the-air stuff.

So are you saying that they are banning the already illegal fireworks, but the legal strobes and cones, except for the sparklers? I get it. However, it is somewhat similar to banning a slingshot if Shotguns and Rifles were illegal and are the things being shot. In the case of the ban on fireworks, it just seems like a CYA (cover your ...) thing for the County to do, but it will make no impact. Please do not be the one who ignites the highly flammable forrest, and burns down my house with my dogs inside. The fireworks scares one of them enough. He doesn't need a heart attack.

I chewed out my nephew last night. I lent him the car Saturday night and found unused fireworks in it Sunday morning. I hid them in the trunk. Last night they got them and went out on the beach and shot them off. When he got home there were more fireworks. After I went looking for them on the beach and found the assorted chairs, tents etc, on the beach at 11PM, I was already fuming. Then he admitted to setting them off but picking up his trash. I said what about the leftover that falls into the water, onto the beach, or onto somebody's wood deck.

We have VERY DRY pinestraw in our neighborhood with wood homes on piers. I hate to be a stick in the mud but why don't people just let the pros do it.

I think that "show" next to Alys may have been the renters 2 doors down. I found remnants in the street and when they started this am, I went down and told them it was illegal and that it's very dry... yada yada. Haven't heard any since. We'll see. Sometimes education does help.

Is seaside doing their show? We sat at buds last year and watched and it was so good. I think fireworks are so dangerous. As we say at macys "leave it to the professionals" or watch our telecast on nbc at 9/8 central. Haha!

Is seaside doing their show? We sat at buds last year and watched and it was so good. I think fireworks are so dangerous. As we say at macys "leave it to the professionals" or watch our telecast on nbc at 9/8 central. Haha!

Was just talking to Tootsie about Rosemary or Seaside. She thought Rosemary was doing one too. Need to check out. Anybody know

I just got off the phone with a friend and he said that Rosemary is having a BBQ? and other things tommorow. He said that in the post office that there is a schedule. Someone needs to check it out....

I chewed out my nephew last night. I lent him the car Saturday night and found unused fireworks in it Sunday morning. I hid them in the trunk. Last night they got them and went out on the beach and shot them off. When he got home there were more fireworks. After I went looking for them on the beach and found the assorted chairs, tents etc, on the beach at 11PM, I was already fuming. Then he admitted to setting them off but picking up his trash. I said what about the leftover that falls into the water, onto the beach, or onto somebody's wood deck.

We have VERY DRY pinestraw in our neighborhood with wood homes on piers. I hate to be a stick in the mud but why don't people just let the pros do it.

I think that "show" next to Alys may have been the renters 2 doors down. I found remnants in the street and when they started this am, I went down and told them it was illegal and that it's very dry... yada yada. Haven't heard any since. We'll see. Sometimes education does help.

If you see someone doing the same at my place, you have permission to "educate" them! Please!

There was quite a bit of pyrotechnixxx around Inlet Beach last night (saw it from the hwy). Didn't see the dancing chicken though

No I was in my house, on Sowal, listening to the fireworks, watching for flames and drinking Cuervo!!!

If you see someone doing the same at my place, you have permission to "educate" them! Please!

Oh don't worry, my parents were visiting and called me the neighborhood gestapo.

Will try to check Rosemary schedule and post.

Rosemary Beach events:


Barbeque: 5PM-7PM Easter Green $15 Adults $10 Children
Concert: 6:30-8:30PM Western Green Free
Fireworks 8:45PM

To bad some of those fireworks didn't blow up some illegal seawalls.Guess we'll have to wait for a nice Cat 4 to do it! I'm seeing alot of nice Ciggy Butts left all over the beach as well as next to the 300 some trash recepticles. Brad I suppose it's not possible for some nice ashtrays to be put out. And if trash doesn't make it into such recepticle I notice the County just keeps driving on by it. Like Smily says Don't feed the Animals.

Maybe that nice crab can educate folks not to throw out ciggy butts or better yet let's design a Flag. Say white flag with a red X across the malboroman sitting on a Camel.

It was quite a beautiful show of fireworks at Seaside - and watching from the beach was very special. Kind of strange how they did what seemed like the grand finale in the middle of the show though. But, I'm not complaining, it was really beautiful...