The storm usually quits sometime after midnight, and Montrose goes silent in the particular way only deep snow can make a town. Nieves Junk and Haul goes to work in that quiet, plowing, shoveling and moving piles off the drives and lots where they would otherwise sit until spring. Getting snow off a property is half of it; putting it somewhere it won't be in the way is the other half. The sun down here will take some of it eventually, though not fast enough to wait on. By the time the valley wakes, the pavement is open and the day simply starts.