Storms reach Naperville's southern edge first, out where the subdivisions give way to open ground and nothing slows the wind coming off the fields. Hinkle Snow Removal & Ice Management watches that line and rolls when it crosses — plowing drives and lots, clearing walks, laying salt where meltwater will refreeze by dawn. Two in the morning is the honest hour of this trade: no traffic, no daylight, just the blade sound, the radio, and the count of how many are left. Drifting is the local trick, and a lane pushed wide on the first pass saves the whole storm. Everyone else wakes to a driveway that looks like the snow simply chose to fall somewhere else.