Salida's winter sun is generous enough to melt a roof at noon and never warm the air enough to keep it melted, so by dusk everything that ran is glass. Raincatchers Inc works that freeze-and-thaw cycle with snow removal — load taken off roofs and eaves, walkways and drives cleared, and the meltwater's path off a building kept open instead of building into ice. February is the month for it, when the banks are old and gray and the drip lines have been sharpening for weeks. The reward is undramatic: nothing falls, nothing cracks, nobody slips on the way to the car. Service covers Salida, Poncha Springs, Maysville and the valley nearby.