Out past Standale the land opens up and the wind gets a running start. Northwest Snow Plowing & Lawn Care plows that side of Grand Rapids — Alpine Avenue and the Walker subdivisions, the long farm-edge driveways where drifting matters as much as snowfall. A blade has to be set differently for a drift than for a fresh fall; you cut it in stages and push the pile where the next storm cannot blow it back. Walks get shoveled to the door, not to the step. When the sun finally shows over the treeline, there is nothing left to do but drive.