Fireworks Huntington Beach CA. 7 4 2016 Full Show!

It was a crazy scene 4th of July 2016 in Huntington Beach CA.
I have lived here all my life and never have seen sooooo many people ( and drunk) like smashed!
Also this year you could purchase and use fireworks in town that I have noticed a few stands selling them.
Combine that with illegal fireworks, like for me it was maybe this video idea might not be so smart all of a sudden when the sun went down.
It seemed liked something was about to get crazy dangerous!
I found a pretty cool safe zone where this video is being recorded from.
Back against the condo's on the beach along a section where nobody could come up from behind and blow me up with some M-80's or something?
The event was pretty cool I thought, and lasted for quite sometime!
This video contains the full show, it started at about 9:01p.m PST, sunset was about 8:07p.m.
The weather was basically perfect with no cloud cover at the time of event.
Air temperature at this time was about low 70's, and the wind was very light to calm which made for perfect conditions.
Kind of lucky considering the low cloud cover has been so consistent last few months at the Southern California beaches, night and morning hours mostly.
I did not hang out for very long after this, but I guess everybody stayed pretty good?
Pacific Coast Highway and surrounding streets were all closed to car traffic.
It was an unbelievable site, like a sea of what looked to me millions of people packed in for miles inland, most with fireworks in hand and seemed like trouble was going to break out any second!
Despite orders to get out of the water, there were a few surfers out there getting more than a front row seat!
I noticed them getting out of the water wet with their surfboards.
The surf was also pretty good, 3-7 foot wave faces from the south with a water temp about 70 degree's.
Huntington Beach Pier is one of the best night surfing places in the world due to its pier lighting, and the direction it faces to the incoming ocean swells.
It use to be actually a lot better in the old days because the lights were much brighter reaching white, then changed to that darker amber color, they're now back to white but I think "LED's" which are very bright to look at but do not put out much light to reach the water to see as clearly I think.
If you notice in this video the pier lights were turned off just before, so those surfer guys had it very dark out there for awhile with no moon!
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[@SparkleByMonica]

I never get to see fireworks live since my hubby despises crowds and traffic to get back home, so this was sparkle-riffic!! Thanks for sharing!!

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+Sparkle by Monica your husband would love the crowd on this one just to get to the beach!

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[@QuietFire]

You say the wind was light and made for perfect conditions but I can assure you, this show almost didn't happen cause the window was crazy out on the pier. I was part of the fireworks crew lol

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This was 2016, I noticed this year 2017 it was fairly windy a little before sunset?

[@QuietFire]

+henryssurfshowcase yeah, I wasn't there this year, I was part of the 2016 crew. Check out my video and you can hear the wind whipping across the pier. It was very windy and we had talked about canceling the show.

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I'm glad you did not cancel the show yikes!!!!!

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Ok I see that was a test fire before it was dark and the wind was still blowing, how was the wind on the pier at time of start?

[@QuietFire]

+henryssurfshowcase about the same, it didn't really calm down much, from what I can recall is our operator and the fire marshal decided we were just under the maximum wind speed limit, however the real deciding factor was the wind shifting slightly so it wouldn't blow hot ash over the spectators and city.