Non-Stop Maintenance

About Non-Stop Maintenance

Lake-effect bands come off the water at an angle and cross this part of Cuyahoga County in dark ropes, dumping hard for twenty minutes and then quitting like nothing happened. Non-Stop Maintenance keeps to the roads through it — Columbia, Bagley, the side streets off them — plowing, clearing and salting so drives and lots stay usable while the sky keeps changing its mind. Night work here has its own quiet: orange beacons on the snow, jets letting down overhead toward the airport, the scrape and the push and then the next stop. A drive opened before dawn is a small thing that changes somebody's whole morning. That is worth being out for.