The first rain of the year comes into San Jose off the Santa Cruz Mountains and finds every low corner of a yard at once. $15 Sewer & Drain Service works the season that follows — mowing and edging when the grass wakes up green, clearing what the wind puts down, and going after the lines below when water forgets where to go. Out on the flats near Coyote Creek the ground holds whatever it is given, so the job is as much about where water leaves as where grass grows. There is a real satisfaction in a lawn cut clean and a drain running quiet underneath it. San Jose homes get both from the same truck.