Snowzilla Update!
Wow. Despite being declared a public nuisance and a safety hazard, and having his torso dismantled, Snowzilla has risen! Seems like the ginormous 18-foot tall frozen icon sprouted up, in defiance of the city, in the wee hours of the morning on December 23rd!
You may love him, you may hate him, but you have to admit, that takes snowballs!
Will he disappear after Christmas? Will he stand firm and defy the powers that be? Will he get a whopping fine from the city? Will we witness a display of Code Enforcement Officer-on-Snowman violence?? Stay tuned!
yaaaa- it’s back.
The city should have bargained with the land owner/builder and offered a piece of the park strip on which to build a new Snowzilla. I can understand that the current location was not the best due to traffic problems but there is such a thing as compromise, people. And I’m glad to see him back altho this may be the last straw as apparently this guy has had frequent run-ins with city ordinances. Guess I’ll break out the popcorn and sit back to watch the rampant stupidity on the parts of all involved.
This is good news. You Alaskans like to defy rules, don’t you?
In this instance, I wholeheartedly applaud this touting of the city codes!
He lives!!!!! He lives!!!!!
my pup and I took a walk past Snowzilla last night. A sight to behold. It was about 11:30pm and there were a few cars driving by and taking a look, but nothing outrageous. I loved the ADN articles on the creator of Snowzilla, a true Alaska character.
Merry Christmas.
Is this a fight between neighbours? How bad was the “traffic nuisance” and what kind of run-ins has the gentleman had?
Who built it in the first place? The guy might have kids and can´t let their snowman be dismantled in front of their eyes. So many questions.
I wish we had enough Snow to make a Snowgnome, but nothing doing here. It´s all up in the Taunus and I guess that too has been melting these last days.
http://dwb.adn.com/news/alaska/anchorage/story/8516403p-8409430c.html
I just read this from 2006. I don´t get it. Back then they loved him…. What happened? Somebody can´t stand the competition for attention?
AKM
Merry Happy Everything.
To all my fellow mudpuppies, the same to you and all your loved ones.
*thinks back*
we showed them didn’t we?
@SillyWhabbit,
We did!
I’m glad I don’t like near this guy and his mess. Check out the “street view” from summer.
1556 Columbine St
VisitorNo Gravatar (18:47:59) :
I’m glad I don’t like near this guy and his mess. Check out the “street view” from summer.
1556 Columbine St
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I’m glad I don’t live near YOU! This is Alaska for christ sakes! My parents were people like you, they would call code officers, police anything to run people out of town if they didn’t like them. This guys has 7 kids and one neighbor doesn’t like him. Good thing he’s a home owner or they would of run him out of town. So what if his house isn’t all fricken landscaped, its not Bev. Hills!
Live and let live. MYOB! Go SNOWZILLA! These people should be more concerned about the taking down the political corruption in Alaska than someone with junk in their house. MYOB! Alaska is the 3rd most corrupt state!!!!
The story is on Huffpo……..
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Merry Winter Solstice, and to all who celebrate the coming of the Light in whatever form you acknowledge – peace on earth, goodwill towards all, and to all, a good night.
I happen to like junky yards. Neatly organized junky yards. We’re Alaskans for Christsakes — a man’s junk pile is a measure of his wealth.
We have an entire boneyard of old, dead cars, trucks and farm equipment on the ranch, besides piles of scrap iron, tires, rims, lumber and timbers, hardware, etc. We build our own barns out of timbers that we mill from logs from our woodlots, and repair and fabricate our own equipment. Both shops on this place have a welding machine, an oxy-acetelyne set and a drill press, and everyone who lives here knows how to use those tools, women included.
I’m completely intolerant of the yard police. We had a yuppie neighbor move in and start demanding that we move our stock trailer (for horses) out of her “viewshed” and move our 1943 3T-D7 Cat bulldozer where she couldn’t see it when she drove by our place. I told her that if she had wanted to control her “viewshed,” she should have bought that land. She didn’t speak to me for a year : ) And when she left Alaska for good, we threw a neighborhood party *after* she was gone.
Billy Ray Powers (Snowzilla’s owner) was a driller on the Bradley Lake Hydro Project. If you live in Anchorage and your lights are on tonight, you should thank him for working on the project that produces your electricity.
grewingkNo Gravatar (19:49:13) :
I happen to like junky yards. Neatly organized junky yards. We’re Alaskans for Christsakes — a man’s junk pile is a measure of his wealth.
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Yeah!!!!! My ex collected junk and a cruddy neighbor complains about his dump truck that was there before he rented his apt. I rent ..here for 30 yrs. I can’t stand busybody neighbors. I read that Snowzilla’s owner was a blacksmith and wielder?
My ex is a roofer/fireman and has ladders around also. There is no garage here.
I think there are more important things to worry about. Especially now with people losing jobs and out of work.
One man’s “junk” is another’s goldmine.
One person commented that Mr. Snowzilla didn’t have his junk in “one corner like everyone else”
That’s the problem he’s different from everyone else.Since when is that a crime? I can’t stand busybodies. they should MYOB! Period.
Merry Christmas Eve everyone! Go Snowzilla!!
Merry Christmas, Mud Puppies!
All you junk collecting people ought to live in one big messy subdivision! You could call it “Junky Heights”!
Hey Visitor – is that near your perfect home on Cry-Baby St. in “Whiney Acres” ??
austintx….
I think Visitor is probably president of his/her local home owner’s association.
I loved the snowman, but I don’t know how thrilled I would be about the yard…I am pretty laid back, but I had a neighbor whose garage constantly produced mice and rats, which ran into my house. Granted, we had a cat who was happy about it, but we weren’t.
I never, ever called codes enforcement, though.
It’s a slippery slope. One family’s holiday decoration is another family’s nightmare. Back home, our neighbor installed a 24-hour a day, huge blinking “happy birthday Jesus” display on his roof, along with hundreds of plastic reindeer, glowing Santas, several life-size nativity scenes, thousands and thousands of holiday lights, snowmen, elves, you name it. Did I mention that all of them were electric?? They blinked, hummed, and the electricity surged throughout the neighborhood. One year he played religious xmas music outside 24-hours a day on a loudspeaker. There was at least one small fire that I now of. Rubberneckers jammed the road and blocked driveways from Thanksgiving until January 2. Many of us celebrated when the city issued a warning. Now he is too old to climb to the roof anymore, so the “happy birthday jesus” lights lay up on the roof all year round, with many of the bulbs burned out. This year it was more like “pp bidy jss”.
It’s kind of funny (maybe not) how this time of year really gets people riled up…………….we all behave a little differently……..the thought police rear up…..the yard art police surface……..are we not supposed to be having fun ????