February in Lakewood is less about the snowfall than about what happens afterward. A Chinook warms the afternoon, meltwater runs across the walk, and by nine at night the shaded stretches along Kipling are glass. Lakewood Snow & Ice Removal works that cycle — plowing drives when the storm comes through, then returning for the ice the freeze-thaw builds, scraping walks down to the surface and treating the places the winter sun never reaches. The difference between a cleared path and a safe one is the second trip. Underfoot, on a cold Lakewood morning, that difference is the entire job.