Provost Construction & Sons Inc.

About Provost Construction & Sons Inc.

Newport News does not get its snow the way northern cities do; it arrives suddenly, off the water, and then everything on the Peninsula stops at once. Provost Construction & Sons Inc. works those nights along Warwick Boulevard and out through Denbigh, plowing driveways and lots while the streetlights still hold the dark. Walkways get shoveled down to bare concrete and treated with salt, so the first person out the door at six finds footing instead of glass. There is a real satisfaction in a lot cleared and banked neat before the traffic wakes — the asphalt showing black again under a low gray sky. By the time the thaw comes up off the James around noon, the work has already done everything it was meant to do.