Freezing rain is Canton's meanest weather — no drama to it, just a glaze that turns a driveway apron into a sheet before anyone is awake. Topside snow removal reads those nights and gets out ahead of the school buses on Warren Road and the streets that feed into it, plowing what fell, scraping the pack, salting the walks and steps where a fall does the most damage. Southeast Michigan hands out fewer blizzards than freeze-and-thaw cycles, so the job is as much about ice as it is about accumulation. Clearing a drive properly means the mail carrier, the newspaper and the morning commute all happen without a second thought. That is the entire point of the work.