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by Sue Orsen The Victoria Gazette Victoria is popularly known and formally identified as the City of Lakes and Parks. It's true enough! Victoria now has about a dozen lakes within its borders, and more on the way -- like Pierson Lake when that neck of the woods is annexed into the city. An even greater number of parks dot the Victoria landscape, the biggest of which is Carver Park, and there are many city and neighborhood parks. But the city's moniker could just as well be something else. Victoria could be called the "City of Snow and Ice." We've been lambasted with snow and ice as early as Halloween in some years and as late as an April Easter in other years. Those six months of snow and ice are, apparently, nothing to brag about, and so Victoria remains the "City of Lakes and Parks." We woke up Monday morning, January 22nd, 2018, to a light dusting of snow, and as the day progressed so did the snowfall. By 2:00 p.m. we had three to four inches mounded on our deck railings and retaining walls. The eye of our first snowstorm of 2018 was dropping by to see us after touring Nebraska and Sioux City, Iowa, and we hunkered down for the long haul. By 5:00 p.m. we had five to six inches of snow that made the entrance to our front door look like a smooth downhill slide rather than a set of five steps. I took out a frozen pork loin to thaw for supper, made a lettuce salad, and we sat by the fire with a glass of wine. It doesn't get better than that. With the Victoria City Council meeting postponed and the Victoria Lions Club meeting cancelled, the evening was ours in this City of Snow and Ice. But it was a short haul, not a long haul. The next day the sun was shining as we ventured out of our neighborhood to see the rest of Victoria. Streets were already plowed and easy to navigate. Our excursion presented scenes not everyone gets to see very often because they're not on our daily path. But the Gazette captured some of the snow-covered landmarks proving Victoria is a Winter Wonderland as well as a City of Lakes and Parks. Listening to the radio that morning, I heard that in the metro area there were 54 crashes, 94 spin-outs, and 4 jackknifed semis because of the snowstorm. Snow and ice are nothing new to the region, of course -- there is no new thing under the sun -- yet weather remains a hot topic all year round, especially on the Weather Channel.
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