By two o'clock on a July afternoon the thunderheads are already stacking up west of the Palmetto water tower, and every crew in town is racing the first drops. Eagle Lawn Service, Inc reads that sky the way you learn to after enough summers here: cut early, keep moving, get the trimming and the blow-down finished before the rain turns clippings to paste. The reward is a lawn that comes out of the storm looking better than it went in — striped clean, edges crisp, walks bare. Bermuda grows fast enough in a Georgia August that a week feels like two, so the schedule stays steady rather than heroic. When the sun comes back out and the steam lifts off the street, the yards on the route are the ones still standing tall.