Main Street in Middletown is wide enough to be startling, and at three in the morning after a storm it is wider still — one truck, a lot of empty asphalt, headlights full of falling snow. Blue Diamond Snow Removal works those hours, plowing drives and lots, opening walkways and doorways, coming back for a second pass when the sky refuses to quit. The city wakes in shifts, and the whole job is to have every one of those shifts find a clear way out. Snow off the river arrives wet and heavy here, so a lot is knowing where to stack it before it turns to concrete. The best sign it went well is a morning nobody has to think about.