Alaska - Giant snowman rises again

[dirtydog]

Giant snowman rises again in Alaska

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A giant snowman named Snowzilla has mysteriously appeared again this year — despite the city's cease-and-desist order.

Someone again built the giant snowman in Billy Powers' front yard in an east Anchorage neighborhood. Snowzilla reappeared before dawn Tuesday.

Powers is not taking credit. When questioned Tuesday afternoon, he insisted Snowzilla just somehow happened, again.

For the last three years, Snowzilla — to the delight of some and the chagrin of others — has been a very large feature in Powers' yard. In 2005, Snowzilla rose 16 feet. He had a corncob pipe and a carrot nose and two eyes made out of beer bottles.

This year, Snowzilla is estimated to be 25 feet tall. He's wearing a black stovepipe hat and scarf.
"Have you seen him?" Powers asked when reached by telephone at his home, the sound of excited children in the background. "He's handsome."

Snowzilla has consistently risen outside Powers' modest home. His children — he is the father of seven — collected snow from neighbors' yards to make the snowman big enough. Each year, Snowzilla got a bit bigger.

Not everybody in the neighborhood liked all the cars and visitors who came to see him.

City officials this year deemed Snowzilla a public nuisance and safety hazard. A cease-and-desist order was issued. The city tacked a public notice on Powers' door.

City officials said the structure increased traffic to the point of endangerment and that the snowman itself was unsafe.

The mayor's office on Tuesday issued a statement defending its move against Snowzilla.
"This property owner has repeatedly ignored city attempts to find ways to accommodate his desire to build a giant snowman without affecting the quiet, residential quality of the neighborhood," said the statement from Mayor Mark Begich's office. "This is a neighborhood of small homes on small lots connected by small streets. It can't support the volume of traffic and revelers that are interested in Snowzilla."

The mayor's office says Powers appears to run a large junk and salvage operation from his home. He has violated land use codes for 13 years, the city said. He owes the city more than $100,000 in fines and other assessments.

Powers said it is the city that has been difficult, not him.
"I have tried to jump through every goofy hoop they have sent to me. I have never been confrontational and it goes on and on and on and it is so goofy," he said. "Some of it is unfounded, some is just outrageous."

The city said it did not expect to take any further action until after Christmas.

Giant snowman rises again in Alaska — mysteriously - Yahoo! News

[dirtydog]

Snowzilla Returns: A Christmas Miracle

[The Fresh Prince]

Thats a cool snowman! The city officials should shove giant carrots up thier arses!

[Propagator]

Thats a cool snowman! The city officials should shove giant carrots up thier arses

Gotta agree with that, preferably sideways

[Thetyim]

Maybe we could donate some Durian

[phuketbound]

Imagine that snowman coming alive..ahaha. Revenge of the snowman!

I see no traffic whatsoever in that video. Cops probably have nothing better to do then to 'Bah Hambug' that snowman.

[The Fresh Prince]

Imagine that snowman coming alive..ahaha

Ahahaha jesus, you've drank way too much this christmas.

[kingwilly]

Cops probably have nothing better to do then to 'Bah Hambug' that snowman

agreed.

but i love his comment, " he insisted Snowzilla just somehow happened, again. "

[Johnny Longprong]

He fights the good fight for freedom of expression. I can't believe that in the land of the free anybody could possibly oppose this. As the man says "If you can't have this in Anchorage, Alaska, what can you have?"

[Loombucket]

Gotta agree with that, preferably sideways

..or still in the blender.

[withnallstoke]

The city said it did not expect to take any further action until after Christmas.

Bloody hell. A talking city tells a snowman to eff off. Truly bizarre

[The Fresh Prince]

Fair play to him and the kids making it in one night aswell.

[watterinja]

Bigger & better next year... More power to him & his family... hahaha...

[friscofrankie]

Some ting like this doesn't get built in one night without a large group of people working on it. If the neighbors didn't pitch in they certainly knew about it as it was going up.

Not everybody in the neighborhood liked all the cars and visitors who came to see him.

"Not everybody liked..." So. The "Mayor's office," huh?

The mayor's office on Tuesday issued a statement defending its move against Snowzilla. "This property owner has repeatedly ignored city attempts to find ways to accommodate his desire to build a giant snowman without affecting the quiet, residential quality of the neighborhood," said the statement from Mayor Mark Begich's office. "This is a neighborhood of small homes on small lots connected by small streets. It can't support the volume of traffic and revelers that are interested in Snowzilla."

The mayor's office says Powers appears to run a large junk and salvage operation from his home. He has violated land use codes for 13 years, the city said. He owes the city more than $100,000 in fines and other assessments.

Seems like 'Snowzilla' is just some more for some uptight asshole to bitch about. Good on the mother fucker for hosting the, "NEW! IMPROVED! BIGGERTHAN EVER! 2008 edition. Fuck City Hall.

[phuketbound]

Fair play to him and the kids making it in one night aswell.

My question is how did they get up that high to make it. Snowzilla is enormous.

Maybe next year, it'll come alive and then the cops will have something to talk about. It could happen.

Frosty comes alive.

Frosty the Snowman video: Frosty Comes Alive on TV.com

[watterinja]

Powers for Mayor next year...

[The Fresh Prince]

^^He does have seven kids, the mans a machine. So thats eight people plus he has a wreking yard so i'm sure he;s got a jcb + I reakon that the neighbours would have chipped in when they heard all the commotion.