We all love the summertime. It brings the best time of the year, warm weather, sun tans, water fun, and if you live here in Spring Hill a whole month chock full of anxiety, ptsd, and noise pollution. In a respectful community you can celebrate the fourth together usually in a local park with your fellow citizens. Yet here in Spring Hill we do not have this. If you live here then you know the months of January, July, and September are the worst if you have any adverse reactions to loud noises. We live in a community of selfish people who would rather celebrate for a month at a time than the city limited days. I can’t be the only person this affects personally. Whether it be phobic animals, veterans with PTSD, children with disabilities, children in general with bed times and, adults with anxiety. Life during these times can prove to be very difficult.  Unfortunately the police in our area do little to address the issue as it’s been going on for the better part of the past 8 years since I started living here. If you are a mother, pet owner, veteran, or even just a fellow springhillian who is TIRED and would like to be able to get some rest please sign this petition. With your help we can change the city ordinances. To help us all finally get some peace. 

CONS
• They damage personal property—in some cases, catastrophically.
• They damage public property—in some cases, catastrophically.
• They create trash; the parties responsible usually do not clean up the remains.
• They terrorize our pets, very literally.
• They blow up the fingers and hands of users, even the most experienced and careful among them.
• They disrupt our neighbors with noise.
• They cause stress and worry, both in the fear of their potential danger and the suddenness of their noise. Our most vulnerable citizens, including children and war veterans, are the ones most susceptible to this stress.
• They’re bad for the environment.
• They smell.
• Their packaging often enforces racial stereotypes.
• They, on occasion, can burn down close to 5,000 10,000 acres of gorgeous and scenic land (so far), cause unimaginable damage to our natural resources, cause unimaginable strain to our public resources, create states of emergency, bring our infrastructure to a skidding halt, make the air unfit to breathe, block traffic, disrupt commerce, potentially ruin the tourism-based economies of our small towns, strand 153 hikers overnight in an incredibly dangerous and traumatic event, decimate sites that bring pride and wonder to the region, threaten our homes, dirty our streets, kill untold thousands (perhaps millions?) of wild animals and insects, encroach upon our vital water supply, and make vast swaths of pristine wilderness uninhabitable for all living things.

PROS
• They momentarily distract the most primitive part of our lizard brains with 1 to 2 seconds of sparkly lights and boom sounds. End of list.