East of the city the ground rolls toward the Thornapple, and the driveways grow long, curved, and steep enough to matter in January. Lawns of Distinction plows them — pushing down to pavement, opening the turnaround, salting the pitch where a car would otherwise slide back the way it came. Out past Cascade the tree cover holds snow and then drops it in a lump on a lane that was clear ten minutes ago, so a second pass is part of the plan rather than an apology. Freezing rain is the harder opponent here, and it gets treated before it has a chance to set. The measure of a good night is a driveway that looks like the storm went around it.