A Detroit block after a snowfall is a row of porch lights, unshoveled steps and one set of tire tracks down the middle of the street. Floyd's Landscaping Snow Removal goes down that row — plowing driveways, cutting the walks back to their proper width, salting the steps where a fall would do real damage. The shovel handles what a truck never will: the mailbox, the gate, the little apron in front of the garage door. None of it is complicated, and all of it matters at seven in the morning. Cleared ground, house by house, until the street looks lived in again.