# Lancaster CA plans to defy LA county order to cancel due to covid 19 and hold fireworks show, mayor says **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [July 3, 2020, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lancaster-ca-plans-to-defy-la-county-order-to-cancel-due-to-covid-19-and-hold-fireworks-show-mayor-says/914154 "2020-07-03T07:03:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lancaster-ca-plans-to-defy-la-county-order-to-cancel-due-to-covid-19-and-hold-fireworks-show-mayor-says/914154/1 "2020-07-03T07:03:54Z")
[https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/weddings/lancaster-plans-to-defy-county-order-and-hold-fireworks-show-mayor-says/ar-BB16hnxU?ocid=hplocalnews](https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/weddings/lancaster-plans-to-defy-county-order-and-hold-fireworks-show-mayor-says/ar-BB16hnxU?ocid=hplocalnews) This doesn’t surprise me as this is one of 2 big summer events the other being our fair and since we canceled all of our events since the Christmas event I’m sort of agreeing with the local government on this simply because of how it works… Now, normally they open the fairgrounds had had food and vendors and an official pro bull riders event (that requires a ticket tho) the fair does get crowded but here’s the thing … all the fireworks are airborne mostly so everyone sits in their car or on chairs and such outside and watches from there So if they enforce the everyone in their cars why can t we have them? As the link says he’s trying to get it registered as a protest or have it somewhere on city property … Lets see how this plays out ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lancaster-ca-plans-to-defy-la-county-order-to-cancel-due-to-covid-19-and-hold-fireworks-show-mayor-says/914154/2 "2020-07-03T07:28:03Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > all the fireworks are airborne mostly Well, that’s always a plus! ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lancaster-ca-plans-to-defy-la-county-order-to-cancel-due-to-covid-19-and-hold-fireworks-show-mayor-says/914154/3 "2020-07-03T19:20:52Z")
hes doubling down today [MSN](https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/weddings/lancaster-plans-to-defy-county-order-and-hold-fireworks-show-mayor-says/ar-BB16hnxU?ocid=hplocalnews) ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lancaster-ca-plans-to-defy-la-county-order-to-cancel-due-to-covid-19-and-hold-fireworks-show-mayor-says/914154/4 "2020-07-03T19:31:15Z")
oh and the mayors full of crap … no ones enforcing mask wearing at all except some businesses … ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lancaster-ca-plans-to-defy-la-county-order-to-cancel-due-to-covid-19-and-hold-fireworks-show-mayor-says/914154/5 "2020-07-03T19:47:15Z")
Just in case you didn’t know there’s a Facebook group called [You know you’re from the AV when…](https://www.facebook.com/groups/fromtheav/) ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2020, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lancaster-ca-plans-to-defy-la-county-order-to-cancel-due-to-covid-19-and-hold-fireworks-show-mayor-says/914154/6 "2020-07-04T02:25:52Z")
Lancaster, Palmdale, Little Rock have grown explosively out there in the desert in the past 40-some years. I remember Little Rock was just a wide spot in the highway with a farmer’s market on one side an an all-you-can-drink lemonade stand across the street. Where in the fuck do they get enough water for all that growth and development now? ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2020, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lancaster-ca-plans-to-defy-la-county-order-to-cancel-due-to-covid-19-and-hold-fireworks-show-mayor-says/914154/7 "2020-07-04T10:27:35Z")
the aquaduct mainly or private wells …but yeah were using all the melted snow from the mountalns these days too ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2020, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lancaster-ca-plans-to-defy-la-county-order-to-cancel-due-to-covid-19-and-hold-fireworks-show-mayor-says/914154/8 "2020-07-04T13:57:59Z")
Huh. I’ve always thought that the water goes straight to Castaic, but the [Palmdale Water District](https://www.palmdalewater.org/about/water-supply/) site says they are entitled to take 5.6 billion gallons per year from it. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2020, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lancaster-ca-plans-to-defy-la-county-order-to-cancel-due-to-covid-19-and-hold-fireworks-show-mayor-says/914154/9 "2020-07-07T03:31:18Z")
> **[Lancaster mayor sets off fireworks show himself after state fire marshal...](https://www.dailynews.com/2020/07/05/lancaster-mayor-sets-off-fireworks-show-himself-after-state-fire-marshal-orders-it-shut-down/)** > > “It was already set up set up and ready to go,” Mayor R. Rex Parris said by telephone on Sunday. “I ordered (the vendor’s workers) to leave the area, but they’d alread… welp it happened and i haven’t heard anything that resulted from him doing it so maybe he’ll get a pass aster all