The Mow Pros

About The Mow Pros

Union Pacific freight still rolls through Wood River on the same line that once carried wagon trains along the Platte, and after a heavy snow The Mow Pros works the streets paralleling those tracks, clearing driveways and lots while trains rumble past half-buried in white. Just south, I-80 hums along steady even in bad weather, and the open bluestem country between the highway and the tracks turns stark and pale for days at a stretch. Clearing a lot here means working fast between storm bands, since this stretch of prairie rarely offers more than a short window of calm sky. A parking lot scraped to blacktop, salt spread before the next freeze moves in, is a small victory against a landscape that doesn't pause for anyone. Getting it done while the sky allows it, and getting it done right, is the plain shape of the work out here.