In general terms perhaps it is time to switch from pyrotechnic displays to light shows and laser displays. The result would be less disturbing for animals and a lot less poluting.
+1
+1 from me.
+1 each from our two horses
+3 and soon +4 when we get another cat.
Something like the Gardens by the Bay light show in Singapore would be good. The music might be loud enough to scare some animals but less noisy that fire works.
I played a New Years Eve gig last night, not that far away but a long drive home as the smoke is so thick it is impossible to see more than 100 metres and there were kangaroos everywhere. But it could be worse, I could be in the middle of the bushfire, not just in the middle of the smoke from the bushfires. This morning the visibility is probably 300 metres or so and the house is full of smoke even though we had all the windows and doors shut.
A few people have been asking me my view about the long term affects of breathing in all the smoke. I hope it is not like breathing in Cigarette smoke. I hope nothing but really it is impossible to not breathe it in.
So many nice cute towns like Mogo have been devastated. What is really sad is if/when rebuilt chances are they are going to be in a new ugly boring modern style of architecture. I hope not but I can imagine it would be like if every Morgan, MG and other interesting classic car was taken off the road and replaced with a white Toyota Camry. New buildings just seem to have no style whatsoever.
