Barrows Excavating

About Barrows Excavating

By January, Harwich belongs to the year-rounders. Route 28 runs quiet past shuttered awnings, and the storms come up off Nantucket Sound heavy and wet, the kind that loads a shovel like sand. Barrows Excavating plows through them — driveways, lots and turnarounds opened up, walkways cleared, sand and salt laid down where the wind has polished the blacktop to glass. Cape snow is its own animal: it melts at noon, refreezes by four, and the same inch can be powder at the road and cement at the end of the drive. Opening a driveway early, while the low sun can still dry the pavement instead of icing it, is the difference between a good morning and a bad one in a town where the plow truck may be the only thing moving.