Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Thrissur Pooram-Fireworks
This annual event is part of temple festivities in my home town and is also one of the most spectacular sound and light shows. My home is only about a kilometer away from where the fireworks occur. This amateur video will give an idea of the intensity of the fireworks. The sound touches 130 decibels peak.I am told that 140 decibels can cause permanent damage to the ear :-) Yes, it is sheer madness and nearly impossible to stand your ground because of the shockwaves.
The flower pot fireworks are missing in the video which forms the other big firework attraction to the event.
The fire stick layout is quite interesting. It starts bursting in a row, then branches to two or sometimes 4. Gradually the weight of the firesticks is increased to provide greater 'knock out'. Then it ends by putting all the firesticks randomly in a mine field of firepowder and comes to a halt in an uncontrolled bursting of simultaneous firesticks.
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i think that looks awesome... unfortunately where i am at the local regulation has limited the show a bit.
this what you see is after clamping down by regulations :)
Wow it sure ws very loud even in the video-sound!
Pretty though. Reminds me of the Canada Day fireworks tha I watched in Ottawa in 07...although the actual site where they lighted all the firework was further down from where the public could watch, soweren't as loud!
yes, pretty loud. dont really recommend it unless you are in a mood for some madness :-)
the exploding flowerpots are much better to watch.
wow!!!! what is being celebrated here, Sarad???? reminds me of a diwali night but on much larger scale......:)
its a temple festival, sort of a mega diwali :-)
you can find more about it in that link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrissur_Pooram
Thanks for the link...didn't know about it earlier.......have never heard of a temple-city festival like this before.........cool! :)
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