At three in the morning, when sleet is ticking at the windows and the road surfaces along the I-395 corridor through Griswold have gone to glass, somebody has to be awake. SafeRoads Asphalt LLC runs snow and ice work in that hour — blade down the length of a drive, spreader across the slick spots, a lot made passable before the first car turns in. Storms that come up the valley from the coast tend to change their minds halfway through: rain to snow to a crust you could skate on. Handling that means reading the surface, not just the sky. By daylight the pavement is dark and wet and drivable, which is exactly as dramatic as this job should ever look.