By Cara Beth Lewis
Just outside of Dublin, on Highway 410 in Bladenboro, a giant snowman stands tall in the yard of Sean and Tabitha Butler, alongside two other snowmen that were created this weekend. For the snow-creators – Chris, Christa, Erin, and Delton Murdock, Tabitha and Sean Butler, Blake and Samantha Davis, Kayla, Callie, and Jordan Lee – it is a family tradition.
Chris Murdock shared their snowman story with BladenOnline. The creation of the massive snowman required all hands on deck and much strategy, according to Chris. He said, “The bottom ball took me, my son, and my wife to push because it was so heavy.” He added, “The middle ball took four of us to roll up on a 2×6 board. We put a big snow ball under the board so it didn’t snap.”
The family’s biggest snowman took about an hour-and-a-half, Chris shared. This huge snowman is impressive, and surprisingly – there was only two inches of snow on the ground at the Butler residence where the snowman was built.
Shockingly, this is not even the biggest snowman that they have ever built. Chris told BladenOnline that they once built a snowman that was twelve-and-a-half feet tall!
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This may have possibly been the biggest snowman in Bladen County this weekend, but it is not quite the biggest snowman in the world. According to dw.com, “Austria is home to the world’s tallest snowman, after entering the Guinness World Records on Saturday. The snowman, nicknamed ‘Riesi,’ which roughly translates as ‘giant’ in English, measures a gigantic 38.04 meters, Austrian press agency APA reported. He smashed the previous record held by a snow-woman 37.21 meters tall, named ‘Olympia,’ in the US state of Maine in 2008.”
Although the record-breaking snowman in Austria does not have the three-snowball figure of your typical snowman, our giant Bladen County snowman does!
Dw.com also shares, “Playing with snow can keep you trim. According to The History of the Snowman, laboring for an hour to build a snowman burns approximately 238 calories. That’s more than dancing and not far from what you’d burn going for a bike ride.” This proves that building a snowman is good exercise AND good fun.
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