Happy New Year 2023

[Kat]

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At least over here we survived the fireworks.
They sold for over a 110 million of firework in the past weeks.
It took almost 1,5 hour to get a bit silent again after midnight had arrived.


We have one calamity, a person of 23 years dead, due to an accident with an explosive game. (Carbidschieten)
The hospitals had an old fashioned horrornight with hundreds of people with wounds on eyes and hands.
12 towns had a restraining order for igniting fireworks, …. that was totally ignored.
Several cars got on fire and there was one empty church that got on fire and has totally burnt down.
35 people, only in Rotterdam, were arrested for throwing dangerous heavy firework to officers and firemen.
The roof of a school went on fire.
There is a volunteer fireman living in a house close by, I am friends with his wife, he got  called three times before it was even 12:00 and after 12:00 he had continued duty/work.

It was a great party. 

For the first time ever I didn't hear a single firework or gunshot! We have one dog (Rascal, the corgi mix) that hates loud noises so we were happy not to have to deal with him shaking. Some years our closest neighbor literally sets off dynamite I think! We've had our house shake with the "boom!" but either they weren't home this year or didn't celebrate.

So sad you had a death over fireworks. People forget I think that they are dangerous and should be handled cautiously.