January in Arvada gives back what it takes: eight inches on Tuesday, a chinook by Friday, the whole street steaming off by noon. MB & J Landscaping and Concrete LLC works the days in between. Plowing driveways, shoveling sidewalks and entries, breaking the ridge the city plow leaves at the curb, and spreading ice melt where the thaw-and-freeze keeps coming back. Wind here scours one side of a house bare and buries the other, so no two drives clear the same way. A path down to bare surface before people need it — that is the measure.