Snow rarely falls straight down in Vermilion County; it runs sideways off the open ground north toward Rossville and Alvin and settles wherever the road happens to be. Elite Earthworks LLC works those nights, pushing the drifts back about as fast as the wind can rebuild them. Plow, scrape, spread, then come around again at three in the morning — that is the honest shape of a storm here. The reward is small and complete: headlights on a driveway that is simply open, black pavement where a foot of white had been. Danville winters don't negotiate, so somebody has to be out in them.