Massive snow fort holds 20

A teenager in Neenah, Wis., put his snow fort-building skills to use, constructing an igloo in his parents' front yard that can hold 20 people.

Dan Meyer, 18, said he used his 10 years of snow construction experience to form snow brought to the yard by city dump trucks into a massive snow fort that reaches above the first story of his parents' home, the Appleton (Wis.) Post-Crescent reported Monday.

Meyer said it took seven truckloads of snow to sculpt the 8-foot high, 14-foot wide and 34-foot long structure.

I was just amazed by how much one load was, Meyer said. Then I piled it up and called them for more loads.

Jeff Harding, assistant superintendent of public works for Neenah, said the city occasionally gets requests for truckloads of snow, but this was the first instance he knew about where the snow went toward a construction project.

We backed up in the front yard and dumped away, just like we would at our dump site, he said. It's really like, 'My God, what are you doing with all this snow?'

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