Mayville State sits close enough to downtown that students walk Main Street between classes even in January, and Jacobson Brothers Outdoor Services keeps that stretch of sidewalk cleared before the first bell, working from the campus edge down toward the older storefronts. Wide, flat, and exposed to whatever the Red River Valley wind is doing that day, this part of town needs snow moved fast before foot traffic packs it into ice. The crew clears the block in a steady line, blowing walks clean rather than just pushing snow to the side where a gust would bring it right back. Driveways on the residential streets nearby get plowed on the same swing, before the crew loops back to check the campus walks a second time midday. Salt goes down heavy on the crosswalks, where slush refreezes fastest once the sun drops behind the grain elevators. It is a route built around one simple fact: in a town this flat, the wind decides how many passes a sidewalk actually needs.