Snow and Ice Management Company

About Snow and Ice Management Company

Pittsburgh's worst ice is a thaw that changes its mind — meltwater running across a lot all afternoon, then a clear cold night that turns the whole surface to glass. Snow and Ice Management Company works ahead of that turn: plowing and stacking, clearing entrances, sidewalks and curb cuts, and laying salt and de-icer before the refreeze rather than chasing it. Around Oakland and Greenfield the ground rarely lies flat, so water goes where gravity sends it and the ice forms in the same handful of places every time — which means those places get treated first. Crews out at three in the morning see a city of empty streetlight and steam. What they leave behind is a lot nobody has to think twice about.