Livonia's snow begins over Lake Michigan, crosses the entire width of the state, and reaches Eight Mile still carrying the water it picked up. Great Lakes Maintenance LLC works those nights — plowing driveways, clearing steps and aprons, and moving the wet, heavy material Michigan specializes in. Storms here don't announce themselves politely; they show up between eleven and four and leave the morning to whoever is ready for it. Being ready means the route is planned before the first flake and the second trip is already assumed. An open drive at daybreak is a promise kept.