An epic igloo was built from the 24 inches of snow that fell during Snowzilla in Oakton, Va., including three rooms, multi-color interior lighting, a bluetooth sound system, skylights and a shrine to the Washington Capitals. Tunnels connected the rooms.
I found this story particularly interesting to cover because when I was a kid I also built a big igloo with a friend after a historic snowstorm — the Presidents’ Day Snowstorm of 1979. We had one room with two side windows and a tunnel entrance. Candles and flashlights provided the lighting. We loved our igloo so much we promised to spend a night in the igloo.
We dragged our sleeping bags and pillows into the igloo but after an hour or so we found it rather boring staring at the snow walls. We moved our sleeping bags and pillows back to my friends family room and then watched TV and crashed for the night. Of course, we didn’t have blue tooth speakers and iTunes back then which I’m sure would have made our igloo a lot more interesting.
The Oakton igloo survived almost three days before collapsing into a slushy snow heap. The lesson learned for future igloo-makers is enjoy your igloos as soon as possible because they melt fast in our area.
Let us know in the comments what you built from the snow!
