Cedar Lane Excavation

About Cedar Lane Excavation

Snow reaches Shady Side wet and heavy, blown up off the Chesapeake with just enough salt in the air to make it cling to everything it lands on. Cedar Lane Excavation works the small hours, when Route 468 runs empty down the spine of the peninsula and the only sound for a mile is a plow blade finding gravel. Driveways get opened wide enough to turn a truck around; walks get shoveled and treated so the first step out the door is a sure one. By the time the sky goes gray at the edges, the drives are black and the piles are stacked where they won't melt back across the pavement. Nobody has to watch the work happen — they only have to wake up and go.