Snows a lot

About Snows a lot

Snows a lot earns its name honestly on the open ground outside Jamestown, where the wind crosses a half-mile of bare stubble field with nothing to slow it down and can turn six inches of fresh powder into a four-foot drift across a farm approach by morning. The crew treats that as the whole job description: clear it again, however much came down, however the wind decided to stack it overnight. In town the work is plainer — driveways, short commercial lots, sidewalks along quieter residential streets — but the same willingness to go back out a second or third time in one storm carries over. Stutsman County winters don't always cooperate with a schedule, so the trucks run early and run again if the afternoon wind reshuffles what the morning already cleared. Most storms end with that name on the truck door proven right at least once, the crew still running the same loop a second or third time long after other outfits have called it a day.