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Alaska pulls plug on Snowzilla the snowman
Officials have issued a cease-and-desist order to builders of the giant
 Al Grillo / AP file A group of people stand by Snowziilla as cars try to maneuver around the vehicles and people stopping to look at the 22-foot snowman in Anchorage, Alaska, on Jan. 5, 2007. |
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Snowzilla is no more. Municipal officials in Anchorage have given a cease-and-desist order to builders of the giant snowman that made appearances the last three years in an east Anchorage neighborhood. The giant snowman was a favorite for photographers and camera crews from Russia and Japan filmed the temporary sculpture. Snowzilla in 2005 rose 16 feet. He had a corncob pipe and a carrot nose and two eyes made out of beer bottles.
He was built in the front yard of the Powers family home and Billy Powers said his children collected snow from neighbors homes to add to the height and breadth.
The snowman was built even higher in succeeding years, but not everybody in the neighborhood liked all the cars and visitors who came to see him.
City officials deemed Snowzilla a public nuisance and safety hazard.
A few weeks ago, code enforcers left red signs at Snowzilla's bottom body ball telling its builders to cease and desist. The city also tacked a public notice on the door of the Powers home.
City officials said the structure increased traffic to the point of endangerment and that the snowman itself was unsafe.
When the notices went up, Snowzilla still didn't have a full torso or head.
"The kids had spent hours and hours of work on it," Billy Powers said Sunday.
Now, Snowzilla is just a big pile of snow rubble. Powers said he doesn't plan to rebuild.
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