Published: April 21,2015
This Long Island family managed to turn a cute holiday tradition into a social media marathon.
The Fregoes, of Massapequa Park, New York, built a snowman back in January using snow from a series of storms that lashed the East Coast and left many buried. As CBS New York reports, months after the Massapequa Park Snowman first came to be, he was still going strong.
On April 20, however, nearly four months into the project, the final bits of the snowman finally melted, save for a snowball father Mike Fregoe and his family plan to use next year for another snowman.
4/20
update: It is official. At 2:16 PM today the last of Snowman has
melted - except, of course, for the snowball we saved for next year's
first Snowman build. Congrats to whoever guessed 4/20 at 4:00....wow!
We will hit over 3,300 likes! Thank you all so much again. From
Snowman and The Save the Snowman Team: Please stay safe....and of
course stay cool this summer!
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"It started out as a small project for fun and it's morphed into the ongoing snow saga, and it's a great thing that makes everybody smile and happy, and we're having fun with it still," Fregoe told ABC 13.
The snowman started off standing 9-feet-tall in January, and as it shrunk, Fregoe and his family chronicled the snow saga on their Save the Snowman Facebook page, which has since garnered thousands of likes and media attention.
The catch: Fregoe only replenished the snowman with snow from those wintertime storms, refusing "snownations" from ice skating rinks or artificial snow, but accepting help from fans across the nation.
With that help, the snowman made it into months with temperatures in the 60s, but the run had to end eventually.
Until next year, Frosty.
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