Twenty-eighth Street never fully sleeps, and neither does a parking lot in January. Jones removal services LLC works the commercial side of a Grand Rapids winter — plowing lots, stacking the piles where they will not block a sightline, opening entryways, and laying salt before the first shift arrives. The timing is the craft: too early and the storm fills it back in, too late and the doors open onto ice. Between Wyoming and Kentwood the wind crosses open ground and can drift a cleared lane shut in twenty minutes, so the route gets run a second time. Come morning nobody notices anything at all, which is exactly the intended result.