Ames Snow Removal

About Ames Snow Removal

Fog still sits low along the South Skunk River bottoms when the trucks pull out of Ames before the sun clears the grain bins east of town. Ames Snow Removal works the driveways and lots that feed the morning rush toward campus and Lincoln Way, clearing a path before the first bell rings at Iowa State. There's a particular satisfaction in a driveway scraped down to bare concrete while the porch light is still the only light on the block. Story County winters swing hard — an inch of glaze one week, eight inches of powder the next — and the plow gets reset for whichever one shows up. By the time Ames wakes up for good, the routes are cut clean and the salt is already working into the cracks.