Snowbanks still smother Twin Lakes properties

TWIN LAKES – It’s late April but it appears mother nature hasn’t taken the hint in some parts of the province.

Properties along Twin Lakes Beach are still smothered by massive snowbanks, some up to four meters high.

“This is a lot of snow,” said Chantale Leonard, a property owner along Twin Lakes Beach. “We can’t even keep up.”

Rain over the weekend and warmer temperatures helped with the melt, but many properties are still buried in snow.

Part of the reason for the unusually high snowbanks could be blamed on the floods of 2011.

A treeline used to act as a natural windbreak from the snow and protected properties along the shore on Lake Manitoba, but now many homes are just buried in the snow during the winter.

The good news is the flood risk is below normal this year and residents we spoke to aren’t worried of a repeat of 2011. Within weeks, the snow should be gone, the snowbanks a faint memory, but it’s a winter people likely won’t soon forget.

“It’s Manitoba life!” said Lonnie Kasian, a property owner at Twin Lakes Beach. “What the heck it’s Manitoba, it’s fun, it’s a challenge, that’s why we’re hearty.”