A February squall can come over the ridge and bury a New Britain street inside an hour. Neighborhood Services takes it block by block — driveway opened, sidewalk cut clean, the apron at the end cleared again after the city plow throws it back. Walkways and steps get shoveled and salted so the mail arrives and the storm door swings. The work gets measured in ordinary things: a car that backs out, a kid who gets to school, a curb you can actually see. Snow makes a street feel cut off, and clearing it is how a neighborhood gets itself back.