Snow in Lamar tends to arrive sideways, carried on a wind that has crossed a hundred miles of open ground without meeting a single hill. Big R Stores - Lamar handles snow removal in town — plowing parking areas, opening entries and shoveling the walks people actually use. There is a plain satisfaction in a wide lot scraped down to blacktop, with the piles stacked where they'll melt rather than refreeze in a doorway. When the clouds break, the Arkansas valley goes so bright off the new snow that you squint at it. Then the trucks pull in, nobody slips, and the day carries on.