(8 am. – promoted by ek hornbeck)
UPDATE: Just Received
Snowzilla, the giant snowman city officials tried to prevent from being built this year, appeared suddenly this morning at his usual winter home in East Anchorage.
Someone built Snowzilla overnight despite a grinchy ruling that the 16-foot construction was a public nuisance and could not make its now traditional appearance on Columbine Street in front of the Powers family home.
Check back for more information as it becomes available.
There wasn’t a picture of the rebirth, yet!!
I read about this earlier today, and felt a sadness envelope me in these troubled times, and divisive political partisanship, and not so seemingly a coming ‘Merry Christmas’ for far too many.
It wasn’t the weather. It wasn’t angry neighbors bearing shovels and pick axes.
It turns out Snowzilla’s biggest foe — the one who felled the controversial but much-loved giant — was a notice-bearing city code enforcement officer.
Now as it says it wasn’t the neighbors bearing shovels and pickaxes but some apparently didn’t like the giant snowball with the funny hat and the Big Smile.
Not everybody in the neighborhood liked all the cars and visitors.
So, city officials have deemed Snowzilla a public nuisance and safety hazard.
A work of Love and Fun by those who really understand the Joy one can find in Life.
“The kids had spent hours and hours of work on it,” Billy Powers said on Sunday.
Now this is the Anchorage Daily News story about the death of Snowzilla, a big “Frosty” to us in the lower 49, City codes slay Snowzilla and another cut of what he meant to many:
It was just a few years ago that 16-foot-tall Snowzilla arose in a residential yard in Airport Heights, launching an annual procession of local gawkers and an international media blitz.
Camera crews came from Russia and Japan.
MudFlats, our now famous Alaskan Blogger has another great writeup, on this Sad Tale now going to become just a memoray for all those little Anchorage girls and boys who built “Snowzilla” and thoes who viewed on the Annual Family Outings at this time of year, Alaska: Snowzilla Declared a “Public Nuisance”. Decapitated..
It’s a real cute write about a sad ending, to the children in all of us, of Joy from the simple things.
And I present you “Snowzilla” better known as “Frosty the Snowman” down here!!
I wonder if It could see Russia from it’s lofty heights??
1 comments
how in heaven’s name can anyone justify felling a snowman?
that is truly sad. i agree.