The best hour of a Torrington winter is the blue one just after a storm quits — the sky clearing over the Torringford ridge, cold sharpening, everything still unmarked. Landscape Innovations LLC is usually out in it, finishing the last drives, squaring the banks, laying sand where the pitch of a driveway would otherwise decide somebody's day. Snow removal in this city is a question of geography: half the properties sit on a slant, and clearing them well means thinking about where the melt will run and refreeze tonight. Lots opened wide, walks taken down to the pavement, steps passable in boots or without. When the route is done right, nobody has to think about the storm at all.