The annual New Year's Eve fireworks display over the Mississippi River was canceled this year, but the skies certainly weren't dark.
In fact, the sky over New Orleans may have been even more lit up as people created their own displays.
An incredible video posted to social media showed the skyline of the city popping with fireworks. The video clip, taken from an 8th floor condominium, pans from west to east as dozens of fireworks shoot into the sky.
James Flynn, who captured the stunning video, said he hadn't see a display like that since 2005.
"The video was taken at midnight from the 8th floor of the Marseilles condo building at the lakefront at the North end of the city looking South," Flynn told NOLA.com. "The only display comparable was in 2005 by the population that was able to return to the city after Katrina. We know how to celebrate here in this great city in spite of disasters, plaques, and pestilents (petrolents i.e. BP Oil). Life rolls on like the mighty Mississippi River."
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Local firework vendors said ahead of the holiday that sales have been very good. Several longtime vendors had ranked the 2020 Fourth of July as their best ever.
“Everyone had been cooped up inside for months,” Big Top Fireworks manager Tammy Pearson said of the demand. “I’m seeing similar trends” for New Year’s.
Some local shops said they had doubled their stock ahead of the New Year's Eve holiday.
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