BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Legislators waved their arms in a snow-angel salute Wednesday to celebrate North Dakota recapturing a world record for those whimsical works of winter.
Guinness World Records has confirmed that the state holds the world record for the most snow angels made simultaneously in one place, said Marilyn Snyder, the education curator for the State Historical Society of North Dakota.
That’s 8,962 snow angels, created Feb. 17 by people waving their arms while lying in the snow covering the Capitol grounds.
North Dakota’s snow figure turnout bested the earlier record of 3,784, set at Michigan Technological University on Feb. 10, 2006.
North Dakota set the first record in the category in 2002, with 1,791.
“If anybody wants to challenge (the snow angel record), bring ’em on.” said state Sen. Dick Dever, who sponsored a resolution celebrating the achievement that the Senate approved Wednesday. It now goes to the state House.
At Dever’s request, senators waved their arms in snow-angel fashion as they approved the resolution. The Senate’s presiding officer, Lt. Gov. Jack Dalrymple, called the display “a bizarre thing to see.”
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