DeWitt Excavating, Inc.

About DeWitt Excavating, Inc.

Prowers County roads run arrow-straight for miles, and after a hard north wind the drifts across them can stand higher than the fenceposts. DeWitt Excavating, Inc. brings equipment to that problem, pushing and hauling snow off driveways, lots and access roads around Lamar until the way through is a way through again. There's a particular quiet in the moment a blocked lane opens — engine idling, the cut walls of snow gone blue in the shade. Big storms out here isolate people quickly, and clearing them is mostly the business of putting a town back in touch with itself. Then the plains go on being enormous, and the road goes on being a road.