Last night , here in tiny town was dead calm, all night.

I still dread the thought of 90 minutes of fire works and hundreds of rounds of gun fire on the 4th of July and New years eve.

Man O man its nice w/o that crap.

Well, it will be at least 20 degrees warmer here today and it is not Illinois.

woke up to a snow covered yard this morning

Some of the local assholes in suburban North St. Louis County were doing their annual weapon checks last night.

I’m currently visiting my daughter and son in law and their boys in Virginia so it was quiet, but in Maui the security system audio was quite busy recording aerial bombs because I forgot to disable the microphone before going to sleep here.

There is no way that I would consider moving out of So. Az. There was snow on the mountain tops this A.M., it was beautiful!!

Surprisingly, it was quiet in Jerkwater last night. I guess the drought must have caused the county to shut down the fireworks stands and the cold, damp wind discouraged the local imbeciles from going outside to waste ammo. It suited me and my old dog just fine.

17 degrees last night. 30 Mph wind gusts and lake effect snow.
All is calm..... All is bright.

^ Yes, it was a beautiful night for a ride...

Spent New Years Eve at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley CA. with my wife and daughter.Freezing cold and windy!
I have to get back to Chicago just to warm up.

I've been shoveling 6" of snow from our front entry courtyard and long driveway since 10am this morning. Our roads don't get plowed by the county so there's still a lot of snow and slush. The 28 degree temperatures today don't do much to diminish it. It'll be down into the teens tonight. Even north Phoenix and Scottsdale got some snow.

Sure is pretty on the native trees and surrounding mountains though. The temperatures give us good excuse to burn some wood. We're natives but you couldn't pay me to move back to the 'Valley of Damned' with no burn days.

Not a single gun shot or fireworks to be heard.

Last night was in the top 5 craziest nights of my career.

Mostly because of drunk assholes, including the one that let off 30 rounds from an AR when we were approaching his house. We had two murders last night and one pedestrian ran over.

Hell of a way to ring in the new year.


I can't wait to retire and get the hell away from any big city.

Every New Years Eve, several of us would just "show up" unannounced, at a concrete covered parking garage. We all knew it was there and that's were we would just weirdly be drawn too without an announcement. After the midnight gunfire, we would lurk out and go back to our beats/patrol.

I can attest that a falling .45 round will puncture all the way through a Mobil home roof and land on the kitchen counter. I took that report.

and

A falling bullet will pierce right through a fiber optic line causing the utility company to spend New Years day replacing overhead line.

Now, 3-years retired, I slept through it all last night.

Happy New Year to all and be safe.

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Originally posted by GaryBF:
Some of the local assholes in suburban North St. Louis County were doing their annual weapon checks last night.

The street my Cousin used to live on in Chicago would have given those Arizona cities a run for their money. I've been there when 4 July sounded like a war zone. (My Cousin and her husband have moved to rural Arizona.)

FWIW, it was fairly quiet in my area last night until about 0010 the next door neighbors unleashed at least 2 guns in their back yard. Those were VERY loud!

flashguy

I used to park under a bank drive thru for 20 minutes or so while the local idiots were clearing their guns thru the barrel, if I was at work

Now I’m retired, I stay home, we moved to Temple Tx last June and I found last night that the local neighbors had plenty of fireworks...even though they are not allowed in the city...sigh, I wanna move to the country again and not have neoighbors

Rural is GREAT, thanks for the stories reminding me!

Very cold last night, very dark, slightly windy, but QUIET!

before I moved from Phoenix, They showed four police cars on the news at midnight , one year,

All four were parked under the two I-10 bridges on the west side of town.

I think a lady in Raleigh , NC was hit by celebratory gunfire New Years Eve.

https://www.wdbj7.com/content/...ation-503762391.html

And in Richmond,Va a few years back, a young boy was killed by random falling New Years Eve gunfire.

Shoot into the ground, dammit, makes the same amount of noise! Or better yet, don't be shooting!

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All the rain put a damper on the Pennsyltucky redneck idiots shooting off fireworks and other loud noisemakers around my way, thank God.

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Originally posted by chongosuerte:
Last night was in the top 5 craziest nights of my career.

including the one that let off 30 rounds from an AR when we were approaching his house.

You can't leave the story there. What happened after that?