Faircloth's Plowing

About Faircloth's Plowing

East Raleigh runs down to the Neuse, and river bottomland holds cold the way a cellar does — the last frost of a storm sits there long after the hills have let go. Faircloth's Plowing runs the drives and roads out that way, blade down, taking snow to the shoulder in long clean passes. Freezing rain is the usual visitor here, so treatment goes on ahead of it and again behind it, especially at the bottoms of grades and at driveway mouths where the county plow leaves a ridge. Clearing the way toward Knightdale Boulevard before daylight is the job. When the fog lifts off the river, the route through is already cut.