Adirondack Snowplowing

About Adirondack Snowplowing

At three in the morning, Watervliet is two rows of streetlight with the Hudson going black beside them, and that is the hour Adirondack Snowplowing starts moving. The wind comes down the river corridor with nothing to slow it, packing snow against the curb line and into the narrow driveways this city is built on. Plowing, driveway clearing, shoveling the walks, salting the apron and the steps — all of it done in the hours nobody watches, so the first thing a driver notices at six is that there is nothing to notice. Across the water the lights of Troy come up one at a time while the pavement below sits dark and open. Winter runs long in this valley, and getting out on time is its own quiet victory.