On Jul 5, 9:19 am, Jay Honeck wrote:
Happy 4th to you all!

Back atcha! Independence Day is the best holiday of the year,
IMHO.

We flew up to our hometown of Racine, WI and enjoyed an honest-to-
goodness Independence Day celebration -- including a parade that
lasted FOoR HOURS! It started at 8:30 AM (with dozens of fire
engines and squad cars from all the surrounding communities) and
didn't finish till the street sweepers rolled at 12:30 PM.

Jay, we had a great one too. Flew down to Springfield, MO and spent
the day with family. The flight back to St Louis Regional began at
8:15 pm. From about Lebonan to St Louis (about 150 miles), there was
never more than a few seconds at a time that fireworks weren't going
off somewhere in our field of view, either coming up from below or
from the distant storm clouds to our southeast. It was an awesome
flight. Perhaps most interesting is that the nearly unlimited
visibility was brought down to 3 miles by a huge cloud of fireworks
residue drifting from downtown St Louis. That's some major weather
modification!
--
Gene Seibel
Tales of Flight - http://pad39a.com/gene/tales.html
Because I fly, I envy no one.