SPOKANE--Many private snow plow companies in Spokane do double duty: plowing snow during the winter and landscaping during the rest of the year.

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Kelley Peterson's landscaping truck is all loaded up with de-icer in anticipation of tonight's snow storm.

Kelly Peterson, a snow plow operator and landscaper, says he just got his truck back to normal for spring work. Now, the looming late-March snow storm has him scrambling to get to ready to plow the nearly 7 inches of snow expected over night.

"We've been out pruning trees, pruning shrubs, doing cleanup, so it's definitely a shift of gears for us," Kelly explained. "We don't control mother nature, we just try to work with her, so if the snow hits the ground, we're expected to respond."

For Kelley that means mounting an 11-foot snow plow on the front of his Ford F550 and loading up the bed with a 425-gallon tank of magnesium choloride de-icer.

Kelley said all the snow this year has been great for his buisiness, enough to get him through any slow business times. Now he's just waiting for the storm to pass so he can get back to his summer work.