Norwich is a city built on its Irish heritage, and it plans to celebrate this weekend with a parade, street festival and Mass. But residents just might need a little of that Irish luck to make all of this snow disappear.
"This year, we have some major snowfall," said Miriah Toth, a member of the Norwich Parade Committee.
Make that some hard-working leprechauns at the public works department, who will start moving the snow from the parade route Friday morning.
"They've already come out and cleared the parade route one time. After these last two storms, they're going to come out at 5:30 and truck all of the snow out of the parade route," Toth explained.
This year’s theme, “I Love Shenanigans” is appropriate given that mother nature has thrown some shenanigans the parade planners’ way this winter.
"It's been difficult. Even scheduling meetings has been difficult," Toth said.
Toth said it will take about an hour for the floats, bagpipers, and Irish step dancers to make their way down the three-quarter of a mile parade route. Last year, 3,000 attended the parade.
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With a forecast of temperatures in the 40s, they’re expecting a big crowd decked out in their Irish best on Sunday.
"We're thinking that people will want to take the opportunity to get outside and do something. Everybody's been kind of stuck inside this winter," she added.
The parade starts at 1 p.m. Sunday on Main Street.
