When the wind gets a long run at the open ground west of Centralia, it will lay a drift across a county blacktop faster than any forecast can mention it. Root Excavating turns to snow work in those weeks — plowing drives and lots, pushing back what the wind piles up overnight, and salting where ice takes hold. Heavy ground and heavy weather are the same problem in different form, and both get answered with the right machine and an early start. There is a plain pleasure in a wide lot pushed clean to its corners with the piles stacked well out of the way. Centralia, Irvington, Hoyleton, Nashville and Ashley sit inside the winter range.