Jim's Tree Service and Snow Removal LLC

About Jim's Tree Service and Snow Removal LLC

Ventura sits where the marsh grass gives way to open water on the west end of Clear Lake, close enough that a shift in wind off the ice can throw a squall of lake-effect snow over the town while Mason City, a few miles inland, stays dry. Jim's Tree Service and Snow Removal LLC clears the driveways and short streets between the cottages and the boat landings, working early enough that the truck's headlights are still on when the first ice-fishing trucks start rolling toward the lake. A squall off Clear Lake can be narrow and intense, dumping snow along the shoreline blocks while leaving the rest of town nearly untouched, so the work here means watching the lake as much as the sky. Walks get shoveled down to the boards of the docks that double as sidewalks in summer, driveways get scraped to bare gravel or blacktop, and salt goes down before the lake wind has a chance to glaze it over again. By the time full light comes up gray over the water, Ventura's few blocks along the shore sit clear, and the ice road out to the fish houses is the only unplowed stretch left.