Above Le Claire's riverfront, the streets climb fast into a run of bluff-top neighborhoods where a snowfall behaves differently than it does down along the water — steeper driveways, sharper grades, ice that holds through the day in shadows the low winter sun never reaches. New Horizon Lawn Services works those hillside streets, where a driveway pitched toward the garage can turn into standing ice if it isn't cleared and treated before an overnight freeze sets in. It's a different kind of town up there, quieter than the shops and lock traffic below, mostly houses with a long view back down toward the river valley once the trees lose their leaves. Clearing those grades takes more care than a flat suburban driveway would, working the blade at an angle that won't send loose snow sliding back down onto a walkway just cleared. By the time a storm passes and the sky opens back up over the bluffs, the hillside streets carry a network of clean, careful lines down toward the valley below.