Vogt's Snow Removal

About Vogt's Snow Removal

Once the vineyards around Lawton are pruned back to bare wire, the lake-effect starts coming in off Lake Michigan and the rows fill white between them. Vogt's Snow Removal plows driveways and lots through those months, clears walkways, and salts the places that ice over first. Van Buren County snow tends to arrive in bands — nothing for two days, then eight inches while everyone sleeps — so a route runs when the sky decides, not when the calendar would prefer. Clear pavement by morning is the whole measure of the work. Then the thaw comes, the Paw Paw River runs high, and the valley goes back to green.