At two in the morning a February storm has already erased Hatchet Hill Road, and East Granby is down to headlights and the shine of falling snow. MTN Life Snow Removal works those hours — the route run in the dark so a driveway is open before the alarm ever goes off. Winter here comes sideways off the ridge and drifts the flatter stretches near the valley floor, which means one town can need two different passes on the same night. The best part is the look of it once the sky finally goes gray: black pavement against white banks, nobody late for anything. Snow work is simple to describe and hard to do, and it only counts if it is done in time.