Penguin Plowing

About Penguin Plowing

Moscow empties out fast once a storm moves through — Main Street's brick storefronts go quiet, the University of Idaho's usually busy sidewalks turn into unbroken white, and for a few hours the whole town looks like it's holding its breath. Penguin Plowing works right through that stretch, clearing driveways and walkways before the rest of town wakes up to figure out how much came down overnight. Moscow's older neighborhoods climb the lower slopes at the edge of downtown, streets curving up toward the base of Moscow Mountain, and a plowed driveway on one of those inclines matters more than it would on flat ground. Students cutting across town to class and residents walking down to the co-op end up on the same cleared paths, whichever the company worked first that morning. By the time the town's fully awake, the driveways and walks Penguin Plowing has already handled just look like an ordinary Tuesday instead of the aftermath of a storm.