Four in the morning out by Waukegan National, the sky goes that hard blue it only finds after a snow, and the side streets have not been touched. Gerrys Landscaping and snow removal is already moving — plow down, drives opened, walks shoveled, salt laid where ice sets in first. The town wakes an hour later to pavement it did not expect. That gap between the storm and the alarm clock is where this whole trade lives. Clear it right and nobody thinks about the snow at all.