I used to get jumpy during fireworks and it didn’t go away until the last 10 years or so. I grew up during a Marxist/capitalist civil war, we used to live close to a military hospital, so you could hear mortar and air defences to try and keep the guerillas away from the area. Mortars sound surprisingly similar to some fireworks.
Also so many helicopters, it was hard to sleep undisturbed.
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I used to get jumpy during fireworks and it didn’t go away until the last 10 years or so. I grew up during a Marxist/capitalist civil war, we used to live close to a military hospital, so you could hear mortar and air defences to try and keep the guerillas away from the area. Mortars sound surprisingly similar to some fireworks. Also so many helicopters, it was hard to sleep undisturbed.