On the newer streets at Cherokee's edges, where the lots are bigger and the driveways were graded flat only a handful of years ago, Schoon Construction Inc. clears the same ground it's built on — new concrete poured true, drainage cut the way it was designed to run. A freshly graded lot doesn't hide the same surprises an older, settled driveway might; the slope is exactly what the plans called for, which makes clearing it more predictable even when northwest Iowa's wind is pushing snow sideways across the open grade before the landscaping's had a chance to grow in and block it. That wind is the real variable out here, running unbroken over lots that haven't grown a windbreak yet, loading one side of a driveway with drift while leaving the other bare. Getting ahead of it means clearing early and sometimes twice, since a lot without mature trees or fencing can refill within an hour of being scraped clean. Down toward the river bluffs, the older, more sheltered streets don't ask for the same repeat visits, and the difference between the two is mostly a matter of what's had time to grow up around a driveway and what hasn't.