Pete’s Snow Removal

About Pete’s Snow Removal

Freighters run the channel past Grosse Ile all winter, cutting a black line through the ice while the island sleeps under six inches. Pete's Snow Removal is out in that hour, plowing drives down to the pavement, shoveling the walk and the steps, pulling the bank back from the mailbox and the road edge. Wind crosses open water here and reloads a driveway an hour after it is cleared, so the return trip is part of the job, not an extra. There is little to match the sight of one clean drive at first light with the rest of the street still buried. Snow work, on the island, straight through to the thaw.