Every inch of snow that lands on the Mummy Range in January is next August's water in the ditches around Wellington — anyone who works in irrigation thinks that way by habit. Keough Irrigation Solutions spends the cold half of the year at the near end of that cycle, moving snow off driveways, walkways and lots so the town can get on with its morning. Storms up here often come dry and light, easy to push, and then a wet one arrives in spring and doubles the weight of everything. Plowing gets a property open; hand work takes the steps, the gates and the awkward strip along the curb. At heart it is the same job as the summer one: know where the water is headed, and get it headed there before it does damage.