Rochelle Snow Removal

About Rochelle Snow Removal

In Rochelle the trains keep running through the night in any weather, and on a snowy one the crossing lights throw a soft red haze you can see from blocks away. Rochelle Snow Removal is up in that same dark, plowing drives and lots, clearing walks, and putting salt at the entrances where boots first meet concrete. Past the edge of town the fields give the wind a running start, so a lane opened at midnight can be drifted shut by four and simply gets done over. The point is not complicated: nobody wakes up shut in, and nobody steps out onto glare ice. There is a quiet pride in the sound of a blade lifting at the end of a route with the whole township opened up behind it.