Snow reaches Seekonk from the southwest, usually wet and usually heavy, the kind that comes up the Providence side of the line and sticks to everything it touches. Seekonk Tree Service takes on the clearing — plowing driveways and parking areas, shoveling steps and walks, putting down salt where the melt refreezes overnight. The measure of it is plain: pavement showing, a path wide enough to carry groceries through, nothing left underfoot for anyone to slip on. Storms here rarely announce themselves politely, so the trucks stage early and stay out until the last drive is open. Seekonk and the towns around it are handled the same way, one storm at a time.