For those of you here on the Strip for the New Year don't forget the 8 minutes of fireworks set to go off at midnight. 40,000 fireworks are to launch from 10 casinos stretching from the Stratosphere to the Excalibur. Right now the big question is wind. According to a meteorologist interviewed in The Review-Journal, winds that night could be well over the maximum speed allowed of 10 mph before the display is canceled: "At this point, I'd call it a 50-50 shot at best." That sounds bad but those are better odds than you usually get in Vegas.