Archive for December, 2009

Inspired by the real Snowzilla. A few days before Christmas 2008, Snowzilla, Anchorage’s most loved giant snowman, was ordered to be taken down by local city officials. On the 24th, it magically reappeared. This story (not real) is for fun and entertainment…

Christmas is nearly here, and something’s missing from the front yard of a home on Columbine Street.
Snowzilla, that frosty behemoth of an ornament, has yet to be raised. But Billy Ray Powers, father to the internationally known sculpture, says not to worry. It’s coming.
“We didn’t get snow until way late, man,” Powers said Saturday evening. [...]

Billy Ray Powers, the man behind Snowzilla, was out this week shoveling snow from the sidewalk up onto the huge stockpile in front of his house. He said now that there’s a new mayor in City Hall, he doesn’t expect the headaches he had under the old one.
Mayor Dan Sullivan’s spokeswoman, Sarah Erkmann, said the [...]

Well, let’s hope by the time this column prints, we will have seen the last of the snow fall for this season. Then again, you never know what will happen in our area. Some seasons we barely get enough to cover the ground; other seasons we have white stuff piled up and weather cold enough [...]

Giant snowman makes appearance in Alaska, growing every year. Ours fits on your wall.
For the past three years, a giant snowman named Snowzilla has magically appeared in the front yard in a residential neighborhood in Anchorage, Alaska. It has grown each year from a 16-foot-tall youngster in 2005 when it first appeared, to an impressive [...]