B & J Excavating Inc

About B & J Excavating Inc

Rugby marks itself as the geographic center of North America with a stone obelisk downtown, a claim that has nothing to do with snow and everything to do with how flat and open the country runs in every direction from here, and B & J Excavating Inc plows through all of it every winter. Highway 2 splits the town east to west, and the wind that follows that corridor can carry snow for miles before it finds a building or a shelterbelt to pile against, so a driveway on the edge of Rugby can fill in twice in one afternoon. B & J Excavating Inc works the residential streets and rural approaches around town with the same equipment it uses for foundations and ditch work come summer, turned over to pushing snow instead of dirt. Pierce County storms tend to arrive fast off the open plains with little in the terrain to slow them down, so timing a route means watching the sky as much as the clock. Around the monument and down Main Street, the cleared lots stand out dark against a county that runs flat and white to the horizon. By the time a storm has blown itself out, B & J Excavating has already made one pass and is ready for the second the wind always demands.