Fireworks have started-- big time.

[TreasonousBastard]

[RKP5637]

1. Where I live it woke up the bats, bats flying all over the place!!! n/t

[TreasonousBastard]

5. OK, that's funny! (But don't bats wake up at night anyway?)

[RKP5637]

9. Yep, LOL. But these are flying scared every time the fireworks get loud, zigzagging all over the

place. Then, they calm down ... next loud boom and they take off again. Yep, they wake up at night, and this time for sure! LOL!

[NightWatcher]

2. my 10 week old mini chiweenie has the hiccups in my lap

I hate fireworks

[CountAllVotes]

15. Me too

and I was born on this day, yes I was and I fuckin' hate it!

[Ferrets are Cool]

3. They are aboomin here

[Moostache]

4. Make America Great (Britain) Again night it is...

Compared to the current state of affairs, it doesn't sound so bad...

[thucythucy]

6. My dog refuses to be more than two feet away from me.

I've got all the windows closed, music and fans running, and she's still freaked, poor thing.

[Rhiannon12866]

7. Here, too!

[mucifer]

8. Here in Chicago it's been going on for WEEKS. My cat doesn't mind

[Thekaspervote]

10. Same here...weeks and weeks. Wish it would stop...sick of it

[mucifer]

11. I can tune it out because I have the L train a block away

[Buckeye_Democrat]

12. Well, it started... the next Civil War!

Not really, but it's very loud here.

[htuttle]

14. My smoky neighborhood smells like Gettysburg right now

...though without the vomit and horseshit overtones, thankfully.

[Turbineguy]

13. Yeah, it sounds something like

the Battle of the Somme here too.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

16. My Othello

My kitty has his thundershirt on.
It's helping. He can relax on the cat tree now.
Before he was hiding.

Seems there are fewer booms.

[central scrutinizer]

17. This year has been unusually quiet

The fireworks used to start at least a week before the fourth. Really big aerial bombs. You could feel the concussion. The big illegal stuff could be purchased at the tribal reservations in Washington state. But with travel so curtailed this year, maybe people didn’t go? Whatever the reason, it’s a nice change.

[hunter]

18. Worst year yet. It's a war zone. Our dogs are attached to us.

Every couple of minutes huge bangs followed by car alarms.

The smaller stuff is continuous.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

19. Really noisy here - it's never been this bad before.

I suppose that because the usual displays they've put on in the parks have been canceled, all the amateurs are out blowing stuff up in their back yards. Fortunately my cat seems unperturbed.

[yellowdogintexas]

20. every night for the past week. Tonight is the worst though

Fort Worth has a report fireworks hotline and website. Our whole NextDoor population in this area is reporting.