Out along the frontage between Prospect and the interstate, the buildings sit on acres of pavement that have to be usable by seven. Elite Industries Inc works snow at that scale: plowing lots and access lanes, clearing loading areas and walks, stacking piles well clear of the drive aisles, treating ice before the first shift arrives. Storms cross the plains here with the whole sky behind them and they do not negotiate about business hours. The measure of a night's work is the moment doors open and the day proceeds as if nothing had happened outside. Fort Collins runs on that kind of unremarked-upon morning.