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Watch Bei Bei the panda roll around in this season's first snowfall

A true winter mascot.

This is One Good Thing, a weekly column where we tell you about one of the few nice things that happened this week.

If you don't live on the East Coast, then you avoided a pretty powerful snowstorm on Thursday that caused major headaches for commuters on Thursday and Friday. While some of us humans might not be feeling the frost, there are other creatures out there who were absolutely thriving.

Take for example Bei Bei, the three-year-old giant panda who lives at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, DC. Bei Bei was pretty happy to see snow flying all around, and even got to play in it.

Lucky for us, the zookeepers recorded a video of Bei Bei enjoying the fresh poweder.

Bei Bei's tumbling in the snow got plenty of recognition on social media. People took to Twitter to express the deep admiration and happiness they felt when they saw his excitement for this season's first snowfall.

Bei Bei will be very happy to know that there's going to be plenty of more snow coming his way.

Keep on tumbling buddy.

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