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amandacat
Citizen
Username: Amandacat
Post Number: 173
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, July 17, 2003 - 1:13 pm: |     |
This is not a complaint, but rather a query.
Did anyone hear long low rumbling noises last night, around 11:00 / 11:30? Like very extended thunder, or fireworks, or an ammunition plant blowing up in the distance? At first I thought it was ghosts moving furniture in my attic (well, I didn't really think that was the case, but that sure was what it sounded like), but when I woke my snoozing husband up he had me turn off our loud window fan and then we could tell the sounds were coming not from our house -- thank goodness -- but from outside, and probably not in the immediate area either. Please tell me someone else heard this too, and I'm not crazy . . .
Thankey. |
brusin2
Citizen
Username: Brusin2
Post Number: 4
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, July 17, 2003 - 1:22 pm: | |
We heard it too! At first i thought fireworks -- but it seemed to rhythmic for that. i haven't the slightest idea what it was, but you are not crazy! |
notehead
Citizen
Username: Notehead
Post Number: 616
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, July 17, 2003 - 1:26 pm: | |
It was the massive fireworks show held in mid-July in Berkely Heights. It is far beyond what any town puts on for July 4th. My understanding is that some major mob guy pays for it every year as a gift to keep the peace with local law enforcement. |
mem
Citizen
Username: Mem
Post Number: 1802
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, July 17, 2003 - 1:51 pm: | |
It was the beans I had at dinner. |
jet
Citizen
Username: Jet
Post Number: 217
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, July 17, 2003 - 1:53 pm: | |
Not so Notehead, family in the fireworks biz lives in Berkley Heights , puts show on for the town, only town residents can get parking pass. It started @ 10.30pm last nite. It also draws a large amount of bikers , the only thing that the cops like about it , is the OT. |
Dave Ross
Supporter
Username: Dave
Post Number: 4871
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, July 17, 2003 - 1:57 pm: | |
And what was up with the horn honking for a half hour around 1:00am last nite? Sounded like it came from somewhere around South Orange Ave./Valley St. area, but could have been farther away, I suppose. |
notehead
Citizen
Username: Notehead
Post Number: 617
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, July 17, 2003 - 2:05 pm: | |
Jet, really? That's very interesting, I think the story I heard has been very widely told. I'm almost disappointed to learn the truth. Hey, doesn't the mob control the fireworks business anyway - so it could still be sorta-kinda true?  |
Nohero
Citizen
Username: Nohero
Post Number: 1821
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, July 17, 2003 - 2:14 pm: | |
I'm glad you asked the question, Amandacat, because it was bugging me, too. I stood outside looking up at the sky, trying to figure out what was going on.
Notehead - the story you heard was probably inspired by the old John Gotti fireworks in Queens. |
jab
Citizen
Username: Jab
Post Number: 77
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, July 17, 2003 - 2:31 pm: | |
AmandaCat, I also thought that the noice was coming from my attic at first and finally concluded that it must be thunder. I didn't think about fireworks. |
jet
Citizen
Username: Jet
Post Number: 218
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, July 17, 2003 - 2:33 pm: | |
Actually Notehead you are sorta-kinda right about the mob controlling fireworks in NJ , it is for as long as I can remember part of their product line around the 4th. As for the families in the fireworks biz , they go into politics , both in NJ & NY. |
amandacat
Citizen
Username: Amandacat
Post Number: 174
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, July 17, 2003 - 4:28 pm: | |
I am so relieved you all heard it too! And that there was a reasonable explanation for it, aside from the ghosts-moving-furniture-in-the-attic theory. 11:30 on a Wednesday night seems a little late for a thunderous fireworks display to me, but I guess that just proves that I'm a cranky old lady . . . |
teach75
Citizen
Username: Teach75
Post Number: 8
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, July 17, 2003 - 5:33 pm: | |
The fireworks display in Berkeley Heights is the culmination of a festival they hold in honor of a saint. (I forget wich one) It is actually a lot of fun. I highly recommend it! |
cugene
Citizen
Username: Cugene
Post Number: 58
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, July 17, 2003 - 11:39 pm: | |
Yes that feast at Berkley Heights is great and the fireworks are awesome better then any other town. The best thing to do is take the rain in on $3.50 round trip. The Mount Carmel Society always holds th feast this time of year. There must of been 1,000 people there. So next year check it out it's worth going to. |
kevin
Citizen
Username: Kevin
Post Number: 65
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Friday, July 18, 2003 - 4:38 pm: | |
The show is put on by the Santore family who owns Garden State Fireworks.
Even though their shop is in Millington and the show is in Berkeley Heights, it's considered their hometown show. The festival is for the Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Society and the fireworks have taken place for 70 years or so.
I am pretty sure that the Flood Hill fireworks were put on by Garden State Fireworks.
I had gone to school with a Santore back in the day and always got to watch them set up the displays. I totally missed it this year!
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