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It’s probably the sound your mind makes when you drive up to the home of Paul Larcom of Becker.

Imagine you are Jeff Goldblum from Jurassic Park urging his rescuers to “drive faster, drive faster!”

Paul Larcom has been creating snow sculptures for numerous years in the front yard of his parents’ home along Sherburne Ave. This year’s subject — a gigantic Tyranasaurus Rex with his mouth gaping wide.

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One year in 2017, Paul completed a tribute to Carrie Fisher, aka Princess Leia by sculpting a life-size rendering of her holding a weapon. He also did a sculpture of Han Solo frozen in carbonite.

A year earlier, Paul formed a racing snail  out of snow from the movie, The Neverending Story. The behemoth gastropod was painted but within a short time, had melted with the spring snow.

But this year’s sculpture tops them all. The dinosaur is about 12 feet high and took Paul three weeks to complete. He used twigs and branches to form the arms and legs to pack snow around. His scuplture has been so popular, dozens of people are driving dozens of miles to catch a glimpse of the mammoth, extinct lizard-like creature. Local TV stations sent cameramen and reporters to the Larcom home to get footage and to interview the incredible snow-sculpting artist.

Paul, 28, seems to love putting his artwork on display along Sherburne Ave. in Becker. It tends to cause some traffic issues but it’s all worth it when one sees the amazed faces on the kids as they approach the realistic reptiled beast of days gone by.

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Paul is the son of Jeannine and Dave Larcom and he has one sister, Jenny.