Winter simplifies Kendall County: the fields go to stubble and gray, the section-line roads run straight at the horizon, and everything that has to open in the morning depends on somebody with a blade. J & S Construction Sewer and Water, Inc. runs its snow work out of Oswego for long gravel drives, business lots and the wide aprons a small pickup can't handle. Heavier equipment tells when a storm stacks up and the piles have nowhere left to go. Lots get cleared corner to corner, entries get opened, and salt goes down where traffic would otherwise pack snow into ice. The measure of a good night is that nobody has to think about it at eight the next morning.