A January storm usually reaches Lexington out of the southwest, and you can watch it come across the old reservoir before it ever gets to Marrett Road. Mike Leary Contracting works snow removal through those nights — plowing driveways, opening walks, and cutting back the wall the town plow leaves across the end of a drive at four in the morning. That last one is the part people remember, because it is the part that decides whether anybody gets out. Storms here often turn to sleet on the back edge, so a drive cleared once is rarely cleared for good; it takes going back. The good feeling in it is simple: dark road, headlights, one more house that leaves on time.