Upslope storms reach Aurora sideways, curling back off the plains and stacking wet snow against every east-facing door along Havana Street. AAA Landscaping ltd works the hours between the last flake and the first commute, plowing drives, cutting walks down to bare pavement and treating the places where meltwater refroze overnight. There is a real satisfaction in a driveway showing its own concrete again while the streetlights are still burning orange. This is high, dry country, and the sun will do half the work by noon, but only where someone has opened the ground to it first. Storm after storm, that is the whole of it, across Aurora and out through Denver, Centennial and Commerce City.