Downtown, snow falls through the Coronado's marquee light and lands on Water Street as though it intends to stay. Fish's Services Inc clears it — plowing lots and drives around Rockford, shoveling entries and walkways, spreading salt where foot traffic polishes ice smooth. A storm that starts at nine at night has to be gone by seven in the morning, and that is the whole schedule. Winters here bring the wet heavy kind and the light drifting kind, and both go to the same place: the edges, out of the way. Clean pavement under a gray sky is a good sight to hand somebody.