The County Sold Her a Dead Crawler for Scrap — Then the Blizzard Exposed What Its Plows Couldn’t Do

Borrowed Fields

When the county auctioned off a dead tracked crawler as scrap, the sale looked like the end of an old machine’s usefulness. Miriam Hayes saw a different problem: the county had prepared for normal snow, not the wet freeze and wind-driven drift corridors that could stop wheeled plows cold. This rura