Freezing rain is the storm that really matters in Northville Township — not the picture-book snowfall, but the thin glaze that arrives at two in the morning and turns a parking lot off Beck Road into glass. Snow and Ice Management works exactly those hours: plowing the lanes, clearing the walkways and entries, spreading salt ahead of the melt-and-freeze that follows a bright January sun. It is watching the thermometer as much as the sky, and going back out when the number drops again. By the time the first cars turn in at dawn, the black is black again and nobody has to think about it. That anonymity is the measure of the job done right.