Haugen Incorporated

About Haugen Incorporated

North of downtown, where Leeds sits along the Floyd River valley and the rail lines still run past the old grain and stockyard buildings, winter comes in low and industrial — snow gathering over wide gravel lots and loading docks as much as front yards. Haugen Incorporated works that end of Sioux City, clearing the driveways and side streets that thread between the river bottom and the rise back up toward the rest of the city. The valley holds cold air longer than the bluffs above it, so a morning that's already thawing uptown can still be locked hard down by the Floyd. Plowing that low ground means starting before the rest of the city stirs, pushing snow back off the narrow shoulders where the valley leaves no room to pile it wide. A cleared lane through Leeds before daybreak is a small, practical thing, and it matters to the people who have to get out of the valley and up the hill to work.