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"How dare you, Texas?" Stephen Colbert commented about various Texas counties cancelling fireworks displays and banning fireworks for July 4th. Around 164 Texas counties have banned the sale and use of fireworks through July 5th because of exceptional drought conditions. Kerrville may be the nearest town in our region still hosting a fireworks display if you can't go without. [San Antonio Express-News]
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No Downtown Fireworks This July 4th
Given the exceptional drought the Central Texas region continues to suffer, it's probably not that big of a surprise that the city has canceled the downtown fireworks display for this Independence Day. Travis County fire officials announced today that this year's display is off due to the extremely dry, fire-friendly conditions. Ditto for any other fireworks that Pflugerville, Westlake Hills, Lake Travis, or Oak Hill might have planned. Sales of fireworks in Travis County haven't been banned (yet), but the Travis County Fire Marshal is recommending that the sale of flying fireworks be banned. [Statesman]
Stare In Patriotic Awe at the H-E-B 32nd Annual July 4th Concert and Fireworks!
Oh say can you see Francis Scott Key sitting on a picnic blanket nursing a michelada on the velvet green meadows of Auditorium Shores tonight as the Texas National Guard Salute Battery's 70 millimeter cannons (!) keep time with the Austin Symphony and a fireworks display to rival the decadent aerial ordinance of the Hunan Dynasty explodes overhead? We can.
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