Phantom Fireworks is currently selling Gift Certificates for their showrooms. When you purchase you also get free fireworks for yourself! $15 worth of free fireworks for you, for every $50 certificate purchased as a gift. What a great Christmas bonus! Make sure whoever you buy this for can get to one of the showrooms. Or grab it for yourself! The deal expires on December 24th. Gift Certificates on Fireworks.com
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Recently I worked my second display show with EFI for the University of Idaho’s home coming celebrations. Here is how it all went down. Or I should say as best as I can remember. All the times should be read with an ish following as I am really only guessing from memory.
11:00pm October 6th – I checked with weather for the area. Some rain but sunny and in the 60s by 2:00pm. I have found that most often the reports for the next day tend to be at least mostly right…
6:30am October 7th – Left my house for the EFI warehouse. Why do I have to get up so early for something that always starts after dark?
7:00am – Detours and wrong turns, at this point I am thinking that I will be lucky to get to the warehouse before sundown!
7:25am – Wow I made it to the warehouse early. Not sure how that happened. Loaded up the truck, filled out some paperwork. Then on the road!
10:30am – After a few stops we have arrived. Great conversation on the road, maybe got in 5 words. Its ok Rich is a great storyteller. It was great getting to know him better.
10:45am – Some concern about the wind, however it should slow down as dark approaches. Rich talks it over with the Fire Marshal, and agrees to a test shot before the show to determine if the winds are calm enough. FYI it was freaking cold out!
1:00pm – Setup is almost done. Most of us agree that its now much colder and winder then when we arrived!
2:00pm – Setup is mostly done and its time to eat. Pictures below are round about that time. Click on the images to see em full size. Also what do you get when 5 guys eat chilly in the back of a an empty cargo truck?
8:00pm – Winds are all but gone now. Test shell goes up just as expected, and we have a green light for the show. Its now warmer then it has been all day, or maybe that was the chilly doing its thing?
9:00pm – Safety meeting, and crew assignments.
9:15pm – Show starts, hand lit for the main body. Some mines, comets, and roman candles are triggered electrically. No problems at all! Turned out to be a great show, and reminds me why I get up early in the morning to do this!
10:00pm – Clean up is done, head back home.
12:20am October 8th – Back at the warehouse.
1:00am – Back home. That was a good day!
Well I found it! My lost disc of Black Cat product videos from 2010. It looks like they dropped some of these items. However they still sell the best of the bunch. Check them out on our Youtube.com channel.
In other news there are some reviews coming soon on the following items. So check back soon for those.
Matthew McConaughey, Christian Bale, Rob Bowman (Director) Rated: PG-13
Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, and Pyrotechnics : The History of the Explosive That Changed the World
By: Jack Kelly 2004 Hardcover, Paperback, & Kindle
By: William Gurstelle 2011 Paperback & Kindle
Reviews coming soon…
