Below the bluff the land opens flat and wide all the way to the river, and the wind that crosses it in January has nothing whatsoever to slow it down. Hank's Excavating & Landscaping Inc runs snow work out on that scale — long approaches, big open lots, drifts that rebuild themselves behind the truck. Clearing ground down there is mostly a matter of knowing where to put the snow so the next storm still has somewhere to go. When the lot is open by first light and vehicles roll in as though it never stormed, the night was worth it. Snow work across Belleville, Dupo, Columbia, Millstadt and Cahokia Heights.