Fourth of July fireworks go on despite rain delay
July 5, 2009 | 12:55 a.m. CDT
After days of preparation by organizers, pyrotechnicians and musicians, Columbia’s biggest fireworks display, "Fire in the Sky," was threatened by a summer storm system that dampened the Memorial Stadium crowd and delayed the colorful explosions. In the end, the Missouri Symphony Orchestra packed up its instruments, but its pre-recorded performance of patriotic music played on. After a 10-minute rain delay, damp spectators were treated to the traditional booms and flashes of their annual Independence Day light show.
