Lake-effect reaches Allendale Charter Township from the west, crossing open farm ground with nothing to slow it down. It tends to arrive around two in the morning, quietly, and by five a driveway that was clear is simply gone. Cox Enterprises Lawn Care and Snow Removal works those hours, plowing drives and lots back to their true width and putting salt on the walks and the steps at the door. Ottawa County winters do not come in one storm but in twenty, so the job is really about being there again the next night, and the night after. The measure of it is plain: pavement where pavement should be, before the first car needs to move.