The storms that matter here don't come down the canyon; they wheel in from the northeast, gray and low, and lean their snow against everything facing that way. J & D Green and Clean works those hours north of Fort Collins — plowing drives, cutting walks open, breaking the drifts that build along fence lines and county-road shoulders. Wind is half the job on this stretch of the Front Range: what you clear at midnight can want clearing again at four, so you go back at four. De-icer takes the glaze off the concrete before anyone has to test it in work boots. Done right, the only evidence is a dry driveway and a morning nobody had to think about.