A neighborhood in Anchorage built a 16 foot tall snowman.
“The kids and I started out doing a snowman, and it started getting kind of big, then it started getting kind of out of hand,” (the instigator) explained. “And then (my neighbor), he comes over and says, ‘Man, looks like you’ve got a big project.’ I says, ‘Yee-aah.’ He says, ‘Well, I’ll help you with it. ‘So he jumped in and that’s kind of how it went.”
The entire neighborhood ended up helping. They were running up and down the street filling buckets with snow to bring back to pack onto the thing. They sewed a carrot nose and made a corncob pipe of manilla envelopes and stuff. He had to use his powerdrill to put the arms in, it was so frozen.
Apparently people are coming from all over the world to see this thing. They’ve got traffic at all hours of the night, but nobody’s complaining. That’s just *so cool*. I love people. *beam*
(eta: I love people, take two! Tracy made me an AWESOME new livejournal icon! I can’t use it on this journal ’cause I’m stuck with .jpgs, but here it is:
*BEAM*!)
Love your new icon. That snowman is HUGE! Amazing how that can bring a group of people to work together.