Dive summary:
- In states where cold weather closes down the construction season, especially for residential and small commercial work, a number of contractors look to the skies for money to fall in the form of snowflakes. But lately, the skies have been unfriendly.
- Take Tim Emick, president of Timberline Landscaping in Colorado Springs, Colo. "Last season's snowfall was off 25% from the year before, and that amount was off 50% from the year before that," he said. That's not a "green" winter.
- In Maryland, where snow is always iffy, a contractor reports that he never puts an income line in his budget for plowing revenue. If it comes, wonderful. If not, at least the budget isn't thrown out of whack.
From the article:
About the only predictable thing in the snow removal business is that each impending season will be as unpredictable as the last. ...
