Miles Per Hour Snow Plowing

About Miles Per Hour Snow Plowing

The properties out along the Steese Highway spur don't come in tidy little clusters — they're strung out over miles of frontage, each driveway a different distance from the last, some marked by nothing more than a mailbox and a gap in the birch. Miles Per Hour Snow Plowing runs that stretch the way it has to be run, covering long empty road between jobs and then working carefully once it actually reaches a driveway, since going too fast with a plow blade wrecks a gravel apron just as easily as skipping it does. Moose tracks crossing a fresh plow line aren't unusual out here, and the crew has learned to expect a short delay some mornings for exactly that reason. By evening the whole run is done, driveway by driveway, each one looking like the storm skipped it entirely. It's a job measured in miles as much as in inches of snow.