The wind comes down on Schaumburg from the northwest with nothing to slow it, so a four-inch night can pile a foot against a garage door out by Barrington Road. Frontline Snow Removal is out in the small hours of nights like that, plowing lots and drives, opening walkways, laying salt where a refreeze wants to set in behind the melt. The work happens while the village sleeps and shows itself at daybreak as plain dark passable ground. Storms in this county do not negotiate; they simply arrive. The answer is a truck already moving when they do.