Bedford's school buses start moving well before sunrise, and the driveways along Sterns Road need to be open before they do. Mike's Snow Removal works that window — plowing drives and lots, shoveling walks and steps, and putting down salt where the ice sets up hardest. Southeast Michigan can hand over four wet inches or a whole night of squalls blowing in off the lake, and the plan changes with whatever shows up. There is nothing complicated about the job and nothing easy about it either: get up, get out, get people moving. A cleared drive at six in the morning is the plainest kind of good news.