Jeffers Excavating

About Jeffers Excavating

Night work has its own map of Oneida: the yellow pool under a lot light, the ridge line black against a sky gone flat gray with cloud. Jeffers Excavating reads that map through a windshield, stacking snow in the corner where it won't block a sightline or melt back across the pavement come noon. Plowing is the loud part; the careful part is ice — a scatter of salt at the entrance apron, another where runoff always freezes first. Up on the plateau a warm afternoon and a cold night can do more damage than the storm itself, so the return trip matters. Come daylight in Scott County, the lot is just a lot again, and that's the point.