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Big Achilles Heel: plowing the road to clear the snow so you can get to the hospital when somebody's appendix is about to burst.

Helicopters bro

Typically you plow right after it snows.

Do you have any idea what it's going to cost to do your own private plowing of a road that long and remote?

Well I do it already. About 1,000 feet for me right now. Once you have a tractor, it's just fuel and time.