Nearly all of this happens at night. When freezing rain reaches Houston County, the trucks of Wolf Creek Grading and Landscaping, LLC roll out of Sunset Village into that particular quiet — headlights, orange flashers, the scrape of steel finding concrete. Lots get pushed, entrances get cut open, walks and stairways get treated so the first person out the door has somewhere solid to put a foot. There is a satisfaction in leaving a property better than the weather left it and being gone before anyone wakes up. Middle Georgia only asks for this a few mornings a year, and those mornings get everything.