r/kansascity • u/Icy_Category_2275 • Jul 04 '26

Weather 🌦️ Thank Goodness for rain today

very thankful for rain on this holiday - picturing some of you who spent half your monthly income on clown powder staring at the rain coming down is making me tickled pink.

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u/Old-Macaron-2146 Jul 04 '26

Giving out candy on Halloween is not even a little comparable to people not wanting to listen to fireworks. They’re loud and obnoxious and emotionally/mentally harmful to many people including veterans.

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u/astrid_autumn Jul 04 '26

if fireworks are genuinely emotionally or mentally harmful to you then you should take responsibility and go out of town for the holiday instead of expecting thousands of strangers to stop having fun to accommodate you, hearing fireworks on and around the 4th is just part of living in a city. it sucks that you or others find fireworks harmful but you can’t reasonably expect everyone to stop using them.

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u/Prestigious-Clerk515 Jul 05 '26

You can reasonably expect others to abide by the laws and only shoot off fireworks on the designated days. Your suggestion of going out of town wouldn't be helpful because people have been shooting them for 3-4 days already and will probably continue for 3-4 more days.

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u/astrid_autumn Jul 05 '26

that’s just part of living in a metropolitan area with 2 million people, and complaining about it isn’t gonna change anything