At three in the morning Schaefer Road belongs to the plows and the streetlights, and the sound of a blade dropping is the only conversation going. Bob's Snow Plowing & Landscaping runs the residential drives and the lots through those dark hours, so a driveway stands open before an alarm clock ever goes off. Steps and walks get shoveled by hand and salted, because that is where a winter morning actually goes wrong. Michigan storms do not announce themselves politely — one can come in sideways at dinner and still be going at daybreak — so the truck heads back out. The clear drive at first light is the entire story.