Comics, 12-27-19: "Snowmen"

USA: Record-Smashing Weather - Historic September 2019
9-25-19, WeatherChannel --Historic September 2019 Snowstorm Brings Up to 48 inches of Snow, Blizzard Conditions to Northern Rockies. Over a dozen locations in northern Montana saw the highest snowfall this early on record. In Great Falls, Montana the latest storm not only shattered September records, but it was also one of their heaviest snowstorms of all time. The National Weather Service in Great Falls reported that in an average winter season, it takes until the week before Christmas for Great Falls to tally 19.3 inches of seasonal snowfall.

History of the Snowman: Fascinating Snowman Facts [more here]
Rider's Digest: The snowman is like a frozen Forrest Gump—look to many of history’s cultural benchmarks, and there you’ll find a forebear of Frosty. It was a snowman who appeared on some of the first postcards, starred in some of the initial silent movies, and was the subject of a couple of the earliest photos, dating all the way back to the 1800s. Snowmen were a phenomenon in the Middle Ages, built with great skill and thought. At a time of limited means of expression, snow was like free art supplies dropped from the sky. It was a popular activity for couples to stroll through town to view the temporary works of chilly art. Snowmen also played a part in one of the bloodiest events in early American history, the Schenectady Massacre of 1690.  At the time, Fort Schenectady, in what is now upstate New York, was a remote Dutch settlement under constant threat of attack. But the soldiers guarding the gates, which were frozen open, left a pair of snowmen at their post to protect the town when they left to get out of a blizzard. Unknown to them, a contingent of 210 French Canadian soldiers and Native Americans were approaching. Having traveled over three weeks in knee-deep, slushy snow, they were unfazed by the snowmen and invaded the fort, killing 60 villagers.
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Almighty ​God gives us snow: Job 37:5-6