Dirichlet
Active Member
- Jan 3, 2013
- 333
My (and our) pleasure. The weather was brutal on Saturday. I can honestly say that's the fist time I've worked setup on a fireworks display during blizzard conditions. One guy brought a little wind-speed gauge with him, and set it up to log continuously. We had winds sustained over 30 mph for most of the afternoon with several gusts over 50 mph, with the highest at 55
Thankfully, the winds died down just enough and just in time for the displays.
The choreographed displays went very well with that single brush fire being the exception. In a display of this magnitude a fire or two is pretty much inevitable (even more so with the winds still being 20 mph or so), which is why the fire companies are on-site and ready to go. There was a ton of heart put into those shows, and it was very evident during the display a guy put up as a memorial to his mother who passed a few months ago.
I was responsible for all of the open shooting (random stuff in the air before the big displays) and for the large, specialty shells between the shows. Everything went well, everything was safe, and we pyrotechnicians were/are extremely grateful for the fans who braved the miserable weather to watch what we put together.
Let's keep our fingers crossed for good, or at least better weather next year.
