A storm that starts on a Sunday night is really a promise about Monday morning, and Fenton's lots and school drives have to be open either way. Shoemaker Services, Inc. runs plow and spreader through those hours — pavement cleared, entrances widened, walks shoveled to the doors before the first vehicles turn in. When the blacktop is dry again the same properties get mowed and trimmed, with edges cut clean along the curbs and islands. Genesee County weather can hand you slush at dusk and glare ice by dawn, so the second pass counts as much as the first. Nobody applauds an empty parking lot in December, which is precisely the measure of the job.