A Norwood storm often arrives as sound before sight — wind combing across Willett Pond, then fine snow hissing against a west-side window. Peak Home Services is out in it, plowing driveways, cutting walkways down to bare pavement, and laying salt at the steps where ice likes to hide. On a February night the work runs by headlight and back-up alarm, one drive at a time, banks squared off so there is somewhere to put the next six inches. Morning is the reward: a door opens onto a clean apron of asphalt and a clear path to the car, and the day simply starts on time. That is the whole point of the night.