When the wind swings hard out of the northwest, Belleville is the first high ground it meets after a long run across the plains, and the hill up toward the Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows earns its name. Midwest Lawn and Snow, Inc. works the storms that come in that way — plowing lots, opening driveways, spreading salt while the flakes are still going sideways. The measure of a night like that is simple: whether people can get where they are going in the morning without having to think about it. Bare pavement by sunrise, snow stacked out of the traffic pattern, walks passable underfoot. Storm work across Belleville, Swansea, Fairview Heights, O'Fallon and Shiloh.