The worst weather Springfield gets is not the blizzard, it is the freezing drizzle that glazes Stevenson Drive at dusk and turns every lot entrance to glass. MTD Lawn Care Inc. handles the snow and ice side of the capital city: plowing drives and parking lots, clearing walks, and spreading salt ahead of a storm as well as behind it. Anticipation counts for as much as horsepower out here, because Sangamon County ice arrives quietly. Timing the pre-treatment, then coming back for the scrape, is what keeps a property walkable instead of merely plowed. It is a good feeling to check a lot at midnight and find it black and dry.