The morning after a Thornton storm is almost too bright to look at — sky scrubbed blue, the water out at Eastlake gone hard and gray at the edges, every roofline wearing a foot of glare. That is when Quality Wash & Plow likes the work best: the plow pushing long clean lines across a lot, the pile set where the afternoon sun can get at it instead of where the next car has to. Corners get squared, the apron at the street gets opened after the city truck has thrown its ridge across it, and the salt goes where the shade lingers and the melt turns treacherous by four o'clock. Thornton freezes and thaws in the same day, so the second pass matters as much as the first. Homes and businesses across town, cleared and kept clear until the sidewalk is only a sidewalk again.