A clipper crosses Michigan in the small hours with barely any warning — three inches while the city sleeps, wind out of the northwest, everything north toward DeWitt gone soft and white. That is when PRLawn&Snow LLC is out: plowing driveways down to the pavement, shoveling walks and steps, salting where the melt will refreeze before morning. The pleasure of it is pulling up to a house at four and leaving a clean apron behind — tires finding grip, nobody late. Snow in Lansing rarely falls at a convenient hour, so the answer is simply to go when it does. By sunrise the route looks like the storm skipped these addresses entirely.