On this issue, I have to admit that I kept checking my emails, the city website, and this blog for updates. At the same time, my husband kept telling us “Look at it outside, of course the fireworks are cancelled!” (But he would have been wrong in Avondale or Lenox). In the end, calling the police non-emergency line did the trick. Now that I know that a key staff person was in labor, I’m even more satisfied with how things were handled, given the crazy circumstances. But that doesn’t mean that this thread doesn’t have some good suggestions for next time. It sounds like the easiest thing to do when things are changing moment to moment is tweet….but that means that I’ll have to learn whatever Twitter is!