A January thaw at Quincy Point is a short-lived kindness: the piles slump, water runs along the gutters toward the Fore River, and by nine that night everything it touched is hard again. Leo Drain Services works the snow through that cycle — plowing driveways and lots, clearing walks, and setting the piles back from the catch basins and low corners so the melt has somewhere to travel. Down where the ground flattens toward the river, the difference between a clear lot and a skating rink is mostly where the snow was put in the first place. Scraping to the pavement rather than leaving a skim is the other half of it. Handled that way, a Quincy lot comes through the freeze the same as it went in.