Kicker - Lucky the traveling snowman

NICK EICHER, HOST: You’ve heard about the winter weather gripping the country—it is February, after all.

Well, a classroom of kindergartners in Tampa got to meet a snowman for the very first time.

Yes, Tampa, Florida.

No, the noreaster didn’t swoop that far south

But a UPS delivery driver did.

Kindergarten teacher Robin Hughes found out that only two of her students had ever gotten their hands on real snow. So she called her sister in Kentucky and said, would you head out in the backyard and build a snowman and then ship him down here.

Well, Amber Estes went along with the plan. Here she is talking with TV station WLEX:

ESTES: We put him inside the packaging. We wrapped him up in that foil. We put ice packs in. We sealed him up. There was styrofoam around the box.

The kindergartners got to open the box and meet “Lucky” the snowman. The teacher said the reaction was just pure joy.

Now, today’s high in Tampa is going to be 75—so Lucky in his current form, he’s not going to last.

Not as a snowman, so the next class project is to use the melted snow to water a plant.

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