Lake Michigan sits about twenty miles west of Hudsonville, close enough that the sky tells on it. When the wind swings around to the northwest in December the horizon over the fields goes soft and gray, and then the band arrives all at once — half a foot in an afternoon with nothing about it on the radio that morning. JNJ Services runs snow removal on that schedule, which is to say no schedule at all: plowing driveways and lots, clearing walks, spreading salt at whatever hour the weather picks. The best part is the after, standing at the end of an opened drive with the squall gone through and the fields glittering flat out to the tree line. This is a town that gets moving early, and the work is done so it can.