An ice storm through this stretch of the Illinois valley glazes everything at once — aprons, lots, loading areas, the whole flat geometry of a working property. Whitek solutions hardscape & excavating goes after it with plow and spreader, opening drives and parking areas, scraping down to the surface, salting the approaches where tires spin. Big pavement takes a plan: where the windrows go, which corner drains, what has to be open first. There is a plain pleasure in a lot sitting black and dry while the fields around it are still white to the fence line. Storms cross this county on their own schedule, and the clearing follows close behind them.