Bill Mcatee Property Maintenance

About Bill Mcatee Property Maintenance

West Greenwich keeps its houses far apart and its driveways long, set back behind stone walls and stands of white pine. At three in the morning during a storm, plow headlights are the only light for a quarter mile. Bill Mcatee Property Maintenance works that hour, pushing snow off the winding drives near Nooseneck Hill and the lanes that run out toward the Arcadia woods. There is a plain satisfaction in the first pass — the blade laying open a black lane where a minute earlier there was nothing but white. Walkways get shoveled down to the step, salt goes onto the shaded pitches where ice likes to set, and the banks are pushed back wide enough to hold what the next storm brings. By the time the sky goes gray above the oaks, the way out is open.