The old rail depot at the center of Waukee now anchors the Raccoon River Valley Trail instead of a train line, and on a snowy morning the walkers and cyclists who'd normally be passing through are replaced by plow trucks working the streets radiating out from it. Kee Outdoors LLC clears those in-town driveways and the newer streets pushing west into what used to be open cropland before Waukee's growth caught up with it, and the contrast shows in the work itself: tight, established lots near the depot versus wide, still-raw driveways out where construction crews were pouring concrete just last summer. A fast-moving front can drop snow on Waukee in under an hour, and because so much of the town is new construction with few trees yet to break the wind, drifts form quickly across open yards that won't have real landscaping for another season or two. The crew pushes driveways back to bare pavement, opens sidewalks along both the old blocks and the new ones, and salts before the overnight refreeze that hits harder on the exposed new streets than the sheltered older ones near downtown. By the time the trail's morning walkers would normally be out, the depot-area streets and the new subdivisions beyond them both sit cleared.