More Alaskan Political Hijinks, Snowzilla Banned!!!!!!!! {UPDATED}

I read about this earlier today, and felt a sadness envelope me in these troubled times, and divisive political partisanship, and not so seemingly a coming 'Merry Christmas' for far too many.

It wasn't the weather. It wasn't angry neighbors bearing shovels and pick axes.

It turns out Snowzilla's biggest foe -- the one who felled the controversial but much-loved giant -- was a notice-bearing city code enforcement officer.

Now as it says it wasn't the neighbors bearing shovels and pickaxes but some apparently didn't like the giant snowball with the funny hat and the Big Smile.

Not everybody in the neighborhood liked all the cars and visitors.

So, city officials have deemed Snowzilla a public nuisance and safety hazard.

A work of Love and Fun by those who really understand the Joy one can find in Life.

"The kids had spent hours and hours of work on it," Billy Powers said on Sunday.

Now this is the Anchorage Daily News story about the death of Snowzilla, a big "Frosty" to us in the lower 49, City codes slay Snowzilla and another cut of what he meant to many:

It was just a few years ago that 16-foot-tall Snowzilla arose in a residential yard in Airport Heights, launching an annual procession of local gawkers and an international media blitz.

Camera crews came from Russia and Japan.

MudFlats, our now famous Alaskan Blogger has another great writeup, on this Sad Tale now going to become just a memoray for all those little Anchorage girls and boys who built "Snowzilla" and thoes who viewed on the Annual Family Outings at this time of year, Alaska: Snowzilla Declared a “Public Nuisance”. Decapitated..

It's a real cute write about a sad ending, to the children in all of us, of Joy from the simple things.

And I present you "Snowzilla" better known as "Frosty the Snowman" down here!!



I wonder if It could see Russia from it's lofty heights??

UPDATE 12-23-08

Snowzilla rises from the dead

Snowzilla, the giant snowman city officials tried to prevent from being built this year, appeared suddenly this morning at his usual winter home in East Anchorage.

Someone built Snowzilla overnight despite a grinchy ruling that the 16-foot construction was a public nuisance and could not make its now traditional appearance on Columbine Street in front of the Powers family home.

Check back for more information as it becomes available.

Snowzilla Rebirth!!

The giant snowman returned to Columbine Street in Anchorage Tuesday morning, December 23, 2008.

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.