My youngest brother is a fireworks fanatic, every 4th of July weekend he will have a barbeque and fireworks show that will have between 200 and 300 people attend. Generally the show last around an hour and he will spend $4,000 to $5,000 on fireworks. He will have a 4 to 5 man crew lighting them off. I swear towns of 3000 to 4,000 people do not put on as good a show as he does.
So about 10 years ago he had a hay trailer about 30 feet from here they were lighting them off, this trailer was about half loaded with fireworks, he was a good 20 minutes into the show. When a spark from one of the fireworks lands on the trailer and they all go off over the next 2 minutes. Fireworks are shooting off in every direction, you can hear stuff hitting the house, smoke rolling every where.
Everyone is running for cover, when we think its over, my brother walks out of the smoke cloud, wants another beer and said, "I guess that was the grand finale this year."
His little explosion slowed down the crowds for a couple of years, but since then right back at it.
A few years before that, he had been shooting them off, and all of a sudden a county deputy pulled into the driveway and parked, we thought we were all in trouble. The guy jumps out of his squad car and asks for a beer and said he hoped he was not too late.
Sometimes it pays to live out in the middle of nowhere.
