The grain elevators that mark Hutchinson's skyline from any direction in town stand over Main Street through all kinds of weather, and on the nights a front moves through off the plains, Zolman Removal Co. is out working the streets beneath them while the rest of downtown is dark. Freight cars still move through the rail yard at all hours whatever the sky is doing, and this crew keeps a similar overnight schedule — plowing lots, breaking up ice at the loading docks, clearing curb cuts so the first shift can park without a shovel in hand. A Kansas storm rarely announces itself gently; it can turn a dry evening into six inches by midnight, and a business that opens at seven needs its lot clear well before then. The work moves from the grain co-op's yard to the smaller lots along Avenue B, each one cleared to bare pavement and salted before the first delivery truck shows up. By morning the only sign anyone was out there is the plow lines themselves, straight and clean under a sky already clearing toward sunrise.