A Rockford driveway takes a beating in January — plow, thaw, refreeze, repeat, all month long. S&J Seal Coating & Snow Plowing inc keeps after it, plowing storms through and coming back to widen the throat where the city plow leaves its ridge across the apron. That second pass is the one people remember, because it's the one that means the car doesn't scrape on the way out. Out here the wind reworks a driveway overnight, so clearing isn't a single event, it's attention paid over a season. There is real pride in a drive down to bare pavement while the rest of the block is still packed white.