East of town, where Thornton runs out into farm ground along Riverdale Road, the wind does more work than the snowfall ever does. Six inches falls, and by morning there are bare patches in the field and a four-foot drift lying diagonally across a driveway like it was placed there. Great Lawns Landscaping & Snow Removal reads those drift lines before it drops a blade, then plows, shovels the walks and steps, and salts the shaded spots where refreeze happens first. Out here the sky is enormous and the nearest windbreak might be a single row of Siberian elms, so clearing is as much about where the snow goes as where it was. Pull in after a storm and the drive is open all the way to the garage door.