platinum snow removal

About platinum snow removal

Three in the morning in the valley and the cold has settled all the way down to the river; freezing fog hangs off the Connecticut and King Street is one long unbroken white. This is the hour platinum snow removal works — plow down, sand ready, the driveways of Northampton opened one after another while the city is still asleep. The valley makes its own trouble: heavy wet snow one storm, a squeaky dry six inches the next, and always the refreeze on north-facing drives that never see the sun. So the walks get shoveled to the door and the slick spots get treated, because a cleared driveway with a glazed apron is not actually cleared. By the time the plows finish and the sky lightens over the meadows, people are backing out onto a plain wet street, thinking about coffee instead of the storm.