renes-2024-nye-fireworks-display_06

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 09:10:37 -0500

01JAN25 - Attended a NYE party last night, Jen was under the weather. Had a very nice time and the highlight of the evening was my friend's annual fireworks display. Rene always goes the extra mile and I know he spent a truckload of pesos on the stuff. Plus, he has things computer-controlled and except for a couple bum fuses, it went off as programmed.

In this shot you see the "Before" photo. These groups of mortars, etc., come in different-sized packages and that's what these are..one fuse starts the whole thing and one might last thirty seconds.

The orange tubes in the upper right are the individual mortars and one "shell" is dropped into each with the fuse dangling out the top for the electrical connection. These things sound like MILITARY mortars with a huge "WHUMFP! :=)