Wind is the real opponent on a wide open lot; it will fill a lane you cleared an hour ago and stack a drift against the fence as though it had been planned. Snow Pushers Chicago works those spaces — school and church lots, storefront fronts, long commercial drives — pushing full width down to the asphalt and clearing and salting the walks and entries. A blizzard in this city does not stop so much as change direction, so the job becomes stubbornness on wheels. When it is done, the lot is one continuous open surface and the striping shows again. Cars pull in the next morning as if nothing had happened.