Dunkerton sits at a quiet crossroads in Black Hawk County, the kind of town where the Little Wapsipinicon curls past farm fields on its way toward the bigger rivers near Waterloo, and a snowfall out here tends to arrive across open ground with nothing to slow it down first. DeLong Snow and Lawn Care plows the long farm driveways and in-town streets alike, clearing walkways and running de-icer on the short stretch of sidewalks near the school and the co-op where foot traffic keeps the ice a daily concern. Rural lanes take a different kind of pass than in-town blocks — drifts built by an open field wind rather than a driveway's own shape — and the equipment shifts accordingly from one property to the next. A prairie system can bury a gravel lane faster than it buries pavement, since there's nothing but fence line to break the wind between one farm and the next. It's small-town, wide-open-country snow removal, working a landscape with very little standing between the sky and the ground.