Blakes Property Solutions

About Blakes Property Solutions

New Pekin sits in the fold of Washington County's hill country, where the roads don't run straight for long before they bend around a ridge or drop into a hollow, and that terrain makes for a different kind of snow morning than the flat ground further north. Blakes Property Solutions works the hill driveways first, since a steep gravel lane holds ice long after the valley roads have gone to slush, then works down into the hollows where the cold pools and the sun doesn't reach until well past midmorning. A plowed driveway out here often means the difference between getting up the hill or not, so the crew runs the steepest lanes twice if the temperature's hovering right at the freeze line. By afternoon, even the shaded hollow driveways have seen daylight on bare gravel.