An ice storm gives no warning worth the name; it simply starts ticking against the glass, and by morning everything along M-52 wears a quarter inch of glaze. Slusarski Excavating & Paving Inc. handles the snow side of Adrian winters, working the wide pavement — plowing lots and drives, clearing walkways, laying salt and sand where the melt will refreeze after dark. Broad flat ground is its own problem: nowhere obvious to stack, wind that undoes an hour's work, and a pitch that carries water exactly where you do not want it. Doing it right means reading the lot before the first pass and leaving room for the four storms still to come. There is a deep satisfaction in a lot opened wide and square while the rest of the county is still coated in gray.