Snow tends to fall hardest on this town at night, and there is a strange calm to the streets near campus at two in the morning with three inches down and not one track through it. Snow Scholars | Evanston Snow Removal is out in that quiet — plowing driveways, shoveling front walks and back stairs, clearing the aprons the city plows wall shut, and laying salt where the melt will refreeze before sunrise. Storms come off the water in bands here, so a property may need clearing more than once before anybody opens a door. The whole point is an uneventful morning: coat on, car out, walk to the train without a slip. Winter asks a great deal of a block, and this is the part somebody has to do at four a.m.