ALL & EVERYTHING

About ALL & EVERYTHING

Lake Roosevelt lies close enough to Kettle Falls that a cold night wraps the whole town in the kind of ice fog that rises off open water when the air drops well below what the water can hold, and All & Everything works right through it, clearing driveways along the shoreline before the fog even burns off. Stevens County winters run colder and longer than the coast ever sees, so snow here isn't a rare event but a season the crew plans an entire schedule around, moving from one property to the next along Highway 395 as each storm passes through. The reservoir holds the cold close, meaning driveways near the water often ice before the ones further up in town do, and the crew learns each property's own timing over a winter of return visits. There's a plain satisfaction in a driveway cleared down to gravel or pavement while the lake behind it still sits under its own morning fog, unmoved. By the time the sun's fully up over the Kettle River Range to the east, the work for that stretch of shoreline is already done.