The worst nights in Monroe County aren't the snowiest ones; they're the ones that start as rain at thirty-three degrees and end with the fields glazed and shining. Kristopher service runs in those hours, plowing driveways across Frenchtown Township and clearing the walks that lead up to them. Every household on these flat roads knows the one indignity of winter here — the county plow comes through at four in the morning and packs a wall of hard snow across a drive you just finished. Breaking that open and pushing it back before the alarm clock goes off is most of the job. A drive clear at daybreak, the walk treated, and nobody has to think about the weather until they're already on the road.