A storm announces itself here about a day early — the light flattens, the wind swings around, and by evening the lamps along the Riverwalk are full of snow moving sideways. Powder Mountain Snow Removal watches the cycle and times the passes so nothing gets a chance to set up: plowing drives and parking areas through the night, shoveling steps and walkways down to bare ground, spreading melt where runoff pools and refreezes at first light. Around Homestead the streets can take a foot while the highway takes four inches, so the route gets rewritten storm by storm. Then morning comes, the sky scours out to that hard Colorado blue, and the driveway is already open. That's the whole ambition — the day starts on time.