First light on a far-east-side cul-de-sac after a night storm: blue snow, no tracks yet, and the scrape of a shovel two houses down. Kev's Snow Removal Service is that sound, driveways plowed, walks and steps shoveled, salt laid where the slope wants to ice over. Aurora commutes early, so the work is measured against a six o'clock departure rather than a sunrise. Reaching the end of a drive and finding pavement instead of packed snow is a small mercy in January, and it is the entire job. The route repeats storm after storm all winter, whatever hour the sky decides to start.