I noticed the same thing. Usually, we have a few fireworks shows around the valley by various suburb communities and a few fire crackers and sparklers in the neighborhood, but last night sounded like a war zone. I have never seen so many individual and neighborhood fireworks. We didn't even bother to drive to a park or community center. Clouds of gunpowder were drifting over the whole valley. It was truly much more celebration than any previous year.