Kalamazoo Lawn & Snow

About Kalamazoo Lawn & Snow

The lake-effect bands that leave Lake Michigan in the afternoon reach Kalamazoo County by suppertime and do not quit until they are finished. Kalamazoo Lawn & Snow takes the whole night with them — plowing drives and parking areas, pushing back the ridge left across the apron, shoveling stairs and walkways, salting where meltwater refreezes before dawn. Pavilion Township's roads run in a plain grid, which makes a route you can run in a whiteout. There is a stretch near the end of a long storm where the sky lightens and every place on the list is open and salted. That is the part worth getting up for.