North toward Opdyke and the Pontiac line the wind has open ground to work with, and what falls light gets stacked heavy against the driveway aprons. Rice And Company Snow Removal runs the night shift on all of it — plowing drives and lots, clearing walks, salting once the surface is down to pavement. Bands coming off the big lake can drop three inches in the time it takes to finish a route, which means a second pass, and some nights a third. By the time the sky lightens over Bloomfield Township, the drives are open and the salt is down. That is the shape of a winter: a hundred nights of it, one storm at a time.