When Watson Pond stiffens over and the wind comes off it with nothing in the way, Taunton settles into the stretch of winter where clearing snow is simply part of every morning. Ferreira Company runs plows and shovels through it — driveways opened, walkways cut down to the pavement, entries salted so the first step out isn't a gamble. Storms here come off the ocean side heavy and wet, the kind that hangs on a shovel and won't throw far. That weight is why the passes get timed through the night rather than saved for the end of it. A drive cleared before the household wakes up is a small thing that changes somebody's whole day.