KIRKSVILLE, MO. -- A local college student is making the most of the snow this winter.. literally.
Alex Hermann is a freshman at Truman State University in Kirksville.
Last weekend he started to make a snow castle just outside of the Catholic Newman Center.
He uses a small recycling bin full of compacted snow to make each icy block.
Hermann is working on the castle all by himself and says he's probably made hundreds of snow blocks so far.
“I just want to work on it as long as the snow's around. I don't know make it like a fancy make it look like a castle, it's supposed to be a castle,” said Alex Hermann.
Hermann is from southern Missouri so he isn't used to this much snow.
Reporter asks, “What made you think, ‘I’m gonna build a castle?’”
“I don't know I guess I'm still a kid just bigger and so I don't know this is the stuff you build when you're a kid, just I'm bigger so I made it bigger,” said Hermann.
He says people walking by will stop and ask him what he's doing.
This isn't the first time Hermann has used the snow to build a structure. In December he and some friends built an igloo.
“It was basically the same design, same bin, same blocks except, we used the arch effect and we made it big enough so we could get in it and sleep in it, for two people to sleep in it,” said Hermann.
The igloo lasted a few weeks so Hermann would love for the castle to last a while too.
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