Washington DC: ‘Fourth of July’, i.e the US Independence Day is celebrated with great pomp and excitement across the country, with spectacular fireworks.
Despite heatwave alerts in several parts of the country, people travelled to beach destinations and areas from where they can enjoy the July 4th fireworks. The videos of the same have also been circulating on social media.
Fireworks Light Up US Skies, Watch Viral Video
Millions of people in the U.S. celebrated and suffered under heat warnings Thursday as they flocked to beaches and traveled in droves to toast their nation’s birth with July Fourth parades, cookouts and the always anticipated fiery splashes of color in the evening sky.
In Washington, neon bursts of light illuminated the night above the National Mall. The Boston Pops performed a musical fireworks spectacular at that city’s Hatch Memorial Shell.
And at parades all across the country, from Brattleboro, Vermont, to Waco, Texas, to Alameda, California, revelers dressed up in red, white and blue and waved the Stars and Stripes in commemoration of Independence Day.
People Flock Airports, Shatter Travel Records
Despite warnings and alerts of heatwaves in various parts of US, lakhs of people travelled for the ‘Fourth of July’ celebrations. Airports were crowded, highways jammed; over three million travelled by the former and over 60 million by the latter.
The Transportation Security Administration reported that a record of nearly 3 million people traveled through airports in a single day last week, a figure expected to be broken this week.
AAA projected that 60.6 million people will travel by car during the holiday period.
(Inputs from AP)
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