By January the ice on Green Bay lies broad and settled, shanties standing out on it in loose little villages off the Menominee shore. Weather crossing that much open water picks up everything it can carry and drops it on the city in a hurry, usually overnight, usually more than the forecast promised. nates snow removal runs the route that follows: plowing driveways and lots, clearing sidewalks and steps, pushing back the hard bank the road crew leaves across the end of a drive. It's cold, early, unglamorous work, and it ends with a whole street able to get on with its day. In a place that measures winter by the foot, that's worth getting up for.