Wind gets a running start across the river meadows below Route 117, and what it does to a fresh six inches is nobody's idea of fair. Lincoln Removal Service plows through that — clearing driveways, pushing back the banks so the next storm has somewhere to go, and coming around again when the drifts close a lane that was open an hour ago. Walks and entries get shoveled by hand, then salted where the melt runs and refreezes at dusk. Lincoln winters are long and the light is short, so the work happens mostly in headlights and blue dark. Then the sun comes up on clean pavement, and that never gets old.