An eastern Illinois ice storm is beautiful in the worst way — every limb in Danville glazed and shining, and everything underneath it impassable. Michael Gay's Tree Solutions LLC works those mornings with a plow and a spreader, opening drives and walkways and cutting the glaze back to bare concrete. Some storms here come wet and heavy; others keep drifting dry across the roads for two days after the sky clears. Either way the measure is identical: can you get out, and can you get back in. That is the whole errand, and it is worth doing well.