Snowzilla returns to Anchorage, Alaska just in time for Christmas! #Alaska #Snowzilla #HappyChristmas
"Like its predecessors, this year’s incarnation of the snowman — dubbed Snowzilla in news accounts when it first appeared in 2005 — will don its original 5-foot-tall hat made of tomato cages, a carrot nose and a corncob pipe made out of a wooden rod and soup can.

Unlike a traditional snowman, which is made by rolling a large snowball on top of a slightly larger snowball, perhaps on top of an even larger snowball, a creation of Snowzilla’s scale requires a different construction method: by piling many, many small pieces of snow and slush on top of one another until the three-tiered structure more than 20 feet tall is complete.

“It’s one snowball at a time,” said Billy Powers.

Snowzilla has a few new features this year, including freshly sewn eyes made of upholstered plywood stools shaped in wide circles, in place of its original beer-bottle eyes."
https://www.adn.com/alaska-life/2023/12/25/snowzilla-returns-to-airport-heights-after-10-year-hiatus/

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