Snowmen thriving in record setting winter cold

Record-setting snow accumulation has buried Massachusetts, New Hampshire and other parts of the Northeast. Cold weather has brought snow and ice storms to much of the middle of the United States including Texas, Oklahoma, Indiana and Ohio.

But despite the mounds of snow, icy highways and slush, it seems that people desperate to get out of their homes have taken that snow and, well, made snowmen. Lots of them, in all sizes and shapes, grew wild all across the country and in Canada.

Photo editors from Yahoo News collected Instagrams and Tweets of snowmen from our viewers and share them here with you.

Some were tall, really tall, like the one in London, Ontario, and some were wide enough to take up two parking spots, like the snowman topped by a traffic cone in New York City.

Huntington Beach, Calif., had an inch of hail on the sand and within minutes a line of small lifeguard snowmen stood watch on the beach near the ocean.

Even Hawaii had snow this winter and visitors to Mauna Kea, a 14,000-foot-tall dormant volcano, built a snowman named Merlin.` (David Handschuh/Yahoo News)