Route 2 carries the first real snow into Leominster sideways, and by the time it reaches the neighborhoods above the Nashua River it has usually turned to the heavy kind. Ferguson's Landscaping runs plows through all of it — driveways opened, aprons cleared again after the town truck comes back around, steps and walks shoveled and treated so nobody has to guess at the footing. Storms in this corner of Worcester County like to begin at night and end at rush hour, which makes timing the whole job. Lots get sanded, banks get shoved back before the next round arrives, and the crew keeps circling rather than calling it after one pass. Nothing looks better at six in the morning than a driveway that is simply clear.