BY ROSE ADAMS
One doting dad made the most of
the Feb. 1 nor’easter by building his
3-year-old daughter a gigantic Spongebob
Squarepants-themed igloo —
which, of course, she adored.
“She went crazy,” said Sea Gate resident
Oscar Risco. “She loved it.”
The southern Brooklynite said he
spent more than 10 hours constructing
the nine-foot-tall igloo, which is
modeled after the pineapple house in
the popular kid’s show “Spongebob
Squarepants.”
Risco kicked off the project on Monday
morning, when he began shoveling
all the falling snow around his property
into a pile in front of his Lyme Avenue
home, he said.
It wasn’t until that night at 2 am
when the dedicated dad began building
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the enormous igloo and a smaller structure
beside it that resembled the house
of Spongebob’s neighbor, Squidward.
Risco fi nally went to bed sometime
after 4 am, but he didn’t get much
sleep, he said.
“She woke up to it; she was excited
about it,” he said. “I was dragged out
of bed.”
Risco, a contractor, said he began
building igloos for his kids back when
his 21-year-old son was young. The activity
isn’t only fun for the youngsters;
it also gives Risco a creative outlet, he
explained.
“I was always drawing things as a
kid growing up,” he said. “In the contractor
business, we also create things
— it’s just like the stuff I like to do on
my own.”
Before this week’s storm, Risco and
A Sea Gate dad built an enormous Spongebob igloo for his daughter. Sally Ann Luciano
his daughter, Aliyah, had decided on
their next igloo’s design, and it wasn’t
long after the snowfl akes started falling
that Aliyah began asking about
the structure.
“She saw it was snowing, and the
fi rst thing she said was she wanted an
igloo,” he said.
The igloo tradition isn’t the only
way Risco and his wife entertain the
local kids. Throughout the year and
during special holidays, the couple
hosts activities for the neighborhood’s
youth, the Sea Gate native said.
“We always try to do creative things
for the kids in the community,” he said.
“We really attract the entire neighborhood
over.”
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