By February the bay off Bay City goes solid enough for shanties, and the cold that does that settles into every driveway in the county. Kolb Lawn and Landscape runs the winter route — plowing drives and lots, clearing walkways and steps, salting the entrances that glaze up overnight. Storms here come either quiet and heavy or dry and blowing, and each one asks for a different pass. There's something steadying about laying the first tracks on a street at five in the morning. Pavement opened, piles set out of the way, and a town that gets to go about its day.