Next time you assoil your driveway after a blizzard , consider sending a spadeful of Charles Percy Snow to the Fregoe family of Massapequa Park , Long Island .
The clanmade headlines in the spring of 2015after word vex out that they were collect “ snownations ” to keep their massive 10 - foot snowman from dethaw . This winter , Newsdayreportsthat the Fregoes have build yet another gigantic ice figure . Once again , they ’re soliciting the public to bring them bucketful of the white hooey to keep their 14 - and - a - half - foot tall creation standing tall until outpouring .
Thanks to social medium , the Fregoes have had no trouble transforming their queer petition into a world . Last year , Mike Fregoe and his two daughters created a“Save the Snowman”Facebook page pep up people to kick in snow . Their on-line try garner glacial offering from across Long Island , as well as a special shipment from Vermont . The snowman shrank as the atmospheric condition grow warm , but the Fregoes blow up its physical body with the superfluous precipitation .
The snowman finally melted in late April . Fregoe restrain a glob of it in his deep freezer , intending to rebuild the democratic local attraction the following winter . Once the conditions cooled down , Facebook users started postulate Fregoe if he planned to make another towering Frosty . After a blizzard gain the Mid - Atlantic several workweek ago , Fregoe built a new snowman . According to Facebook , the snowman is still intact , and continue to acquire in size as snownations teem in .
CBS New York report thatthe household hope the raw snowman will last even longer than last twelvemonth ’s stupendous labor of dear . Since film concern of the sculpture is stale , time - consume , and expensive work , they recently created " I Helped Save the Snowman " T - shirt . Snow contributorscan purchase the shirt onlineto help the Fregoes resurrect money for unexampled shovel , rain gear , and umbrellas . Twenty per centum of the proceeds will go to a donation fund for St. Jude Children ’s Research Hospital .
While the Fregoes ' snowman is telling , it has over a hundred foundation ( and countless snownations ) to go before itsurpasses the world ’s largestsnowwoman , an unbelievable 122 - foot figure list Olympia that was build up in Bethel , Maine in 2008 . She feature eyelash made from quondam ski , ruby tire " lip , " and cascading blonde locks made of rope . No word , though , on whether she endure until summer — a exploit that the Fregoes seem determined to accomplish with their snowman this class .
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