South of Joliet the land opens out toward Elwood and the wind crosses it with nothing at all to slow it down. Commercial Snow & Ice Removal works those acres at two in the morning — dock aprons, truck courts, employee lots, the long approach roads that fill in nearly as fast as they are cleared. Plowing is only half of it; the rest is ice, salt laid ahead of the freeze and again once the blades have scraped down to wet pavement. By first shift the stripes are visible again and the walks to the doors are gritted. Big pavement, small margins, and nobody notices when it goes right — which is exactly the point.