July 13, 2005: Preparing for the main event
Its a big deal to set up the fireworks for Thursday night. A group
of us met to gain a better insight into the Thursday night event. More
than 60,000 shots will be ignited, assuming that the weather behaves
itself - which requires winds less than 20 mpg. Rain seems not to be
such a big deal - and should conditions be poor, the event will
be shifted to Friday night - same time, same station. There will
be 6 or 8 barges with fireworks (my bad short term memory) as well as an array
of stuff on the main deck. In addition to the fireworks, there will
be music, broadcast by a number of local stations.
Here is shown one group of fireworks shells.
These are arranged in a linear array that follows the barrier
separating east bound from west bound traffic
And of course to get the story right, all our local new organizations
were asking questions to the
Zambelli worker
who is setting up the array. (He is from Summerville, by the way).
