Above town the ground opens out and the wind arrives straight off the river channel, packing the highway shoulders and loading the lots with drift by nightfall. RMCP Exterior Services runs that open ground after dark, stacking snow where it will not blow back and opening approaches so a Dunleith morning can start on schedule. Salt goes down on the entries that freeze first, the ones that sit in shade the whole short day. There is a good hour around four in the morning when the pushing is done, the pavement is black and wet, and the only light is the one on the pole. Then the truck turns for the next lot and does it again.