Snow arrives in Johnstown sideways — dry, fine, driven east off the Front Range over ground with nothing on it to slow the wind. Top-Notch Tree Service runs snow removal through those nights: plowing driveways and lots, clearing walkways, and spreading ice melt at the steps and the mailbox where the drift always piles up. The work starts hours before sunrise, headlights on county-road blacktop, so the first person out the door at six meets bare concrete instead of a shovel. By the time the sky goes pale over the plains and the peaks show themselves again west of town, the route is finished and the trucks head in. One storm at a time, all winter, for the drives and lots around town.