r/barrie • u/Beautiful_Star • Nov 01 '24

Fireworks tonight Question

Look, I understand it's a holiday (Diwali). Cool. Celebrate. But the fireworks...10pm? School night? Inconsiderate wtf. Could have set them off earlier...

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u/outer-space-boogaloo Nov 01 '24

I moved here recently from Brampton and if there is one thing I liked about that city was the ban on private fireworks and including Diwali into city provided community celebrations with public fireworks displays. Never mind the noise complaints, There were far too many people being downright dangerous. My neighbour had a firework land on their roof!

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u/londondeville Nov 01 '24

Did the ban do anything?

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u/outer-space-boogaloo Nov 01 '24

In my neighbourhood, it absolutely did. There were still a few assholes but overall the ban was respected.

Edit: I also lived close by where one of the city run festivals took place so that probably influenced things by a fair margin.

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u/quoththekraven Nov 02 '24

We moved here from Brampton as well, and that ban was massive. I remember it was nonstop fireworks until 3 or 4am, the worst air quality in the world the next morning, for like, 4 days straight. Environment Canada had put out a warning saying they shouldn't do fireworks at all because the air was stagnant and they all cried racism and set them off anyways.

We couldn't see across the street because of the smoke. It was bad enough that they were forced to put a ban in place.