North of Sterling the land opens flat to the horizon, and in January the wind puts that openness to use. Snow that fell politely at midnight gets picked back up by morning and stacked against every fence line and windbreak between here and the county road. Dravis Landscaping plows against exactly that — driveways, lots and walks cleared, then cleared again when the drift has rebuilt itself by noon. Ice control goes down where the wind has polished the pavement smooth. It is stubborn work for a stubborn kind of weather, and the payoff is a clean apron of blacktop with the gale still howling over it.