Soldiers Memorial Park sits right on Clear Lake in the middle of La Porte, close enough that the neighborhoods around it are some of the first in the city to feel a cold front move down off the lakeshore. Property Services Inc keeps those streets clear block by block, working from the park's edge outward through the older grid of homes toward the newer subdivisions at the edge of town. A La Porte winter can swing hard within a single week — a foot of lake-effect snow followed by a thaw that leaves everything glazed — so the routes stay flexible, plow one morning and de-ice the next depending on what the lake sends. There's something satisfying about finishing a full morning's route while Clear Lake still sits frozen and empty past the park benches, every driveway on the list bare and every front step salted. By evening, with the lake gone dark and still past the park's frozen shoreline, porch lights start clicking on along streets already salted for the night ahead.