The January thaw is a liar in this part of Maine — two soft days, then one hard clear night that turns every yard to glass. Mainely Repairs & Remodels LLC stays ahead of it around Lewiston with plowing, shoveled walks, and sand and salt where the refreeze bites hardest. The back roads out toward Wales and Sabattus keep drifting long after the highway has gone clean, so the late runs are the ones that count. A driveway opened at eleven at night means nobody starts tomorrow stuck behind their own car. Unglamorous work, and the result is exactly the reason for it.