Down where the Deerfield swings toward the Connecticut below Cheapside, the air holds moisture and a Greenfield storm will turn to freezing rain sooner than anyone would like. Vassar's works those nights, plowing driveways and lots and clearing the walks before the crust can set. Ice changes the job entirely — less pushing, more sand and salt, and a second pass once the temperature makes up its mind. Single storms and whole-winter arrangements come down to the same thing: being out before the town needs to be. When the sun finally lifts over the valley, the driveway is bare and everything else is glass.