The first train out of Norfolk leaves in the dark, which means the lots and the walk to the platform have to be open well ahead of it. Doverstone Corporation works those early hours — plowing drives and parking areas, clearing walkways to bare pavement, spreading salt and sand where the afternoon melt will refreeze before anybody comes home. Snow does not care what time it decides to start, so the answer is simply to be out in it sooner. There is a particular quiet at four in the morning, the beacon turning slow and a clean lane opening behind the blade. Norfolk gets up, gets out, and mostly never has to think about how.