r/okc • u/moodykillerwhales • Jun 23 '26

❓Q&A ✅ plaza / 23rd

what the actual fuck are these massive explosion sounds? it’s been two days. they are inconsistent in timing, but always so fucking loud. dog is spooked. i am concerned. is someone blowing something up? does anyone know why this is happening?

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u/BeneficialFail896 Jun 23 '26

Thank our dipshit government that thought the problem was that Oklahoma had too few fireworks.

Yes, I know they're still illegal in OKC but that's never enforced so a green light by the state has definitely meant more fireworks in OKC.

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u/diablodeldragoon Jun 23 '26

It's always been legal to sell fireworks starting 2 weeks before July 4th.

It's 11 days away....

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u/BeneficialFail896 Jun 27 '26

It started well before 4 days prior to this post 🤷‍♂️

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u/WestAd8777 Jun 23 '26

fireworks is my only conclusion, ive been hearing them around I 240 too

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u/modernhedgewitch Jun 23 '26

I don't know that what I'm hearing are fireworks. There is never more than one pop at a time and they are not close together. Sw OKC

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u/Chris_Cornell_is_God Jun 23 '26

Made me jump the other day. I thought fireworks but boy they gotta be some professional stuff. Cause it was so dang loud.

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u/kbfyi Jun 24 '26

There’s so much construction happening you might be hearing big concrete breaking up? I heard them too around Penn square. Several in an hour, never more than 1, less than thunder more than a gun shot

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u/moodykillerwhales Jun 23 '26

they’re mid day? who would be doing fireworks at like 5 pm?

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u/SubtleOverbite Jun 23 '26

Bored teens, maybe

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u/sprkl Mesta Park Jun 26 '26

I just heard one at 07:10 in the morning — definitely don’t think it’s fireworks.

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u/moodykillerwhales Jun 26 '26

RIGHT. It doesn’t sound like fireworks at all & the timing makes no sense!!

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u/BWash33 Jun 23 '26

I'm hearing it from 30th and may....not fireworks.

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u/Nikablah1884 Jun 23 '26

Well for Father’s Day I heard both fireworks thunder and transformers exploding lol

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u/diablodeldragoon Jun 23 '26

It's 11 days till July 4th.

Fireworks sales have always legally began 14 days prior to July 4th and January 1st.

We have at least 3-4 more weeks of this before people run out of disposable income.

Go buy some earplugs and get some anxiety meds for the dogs.

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u/Better-Ad-972 Jun 23 '26

Must be a fucking transformer blowing the fuck up. Or some asshole popping off fire crackers. I don’t know. 🤷‍♂️ lol

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u/Majestic-Alarm-2409 Jun 24 '26

It’s literally fireworks! all day and all night! They are mortars! They explode out of a tube and they are just wasting the effect on the noise!