Downtown Saginaw at two in the morning during a storm is a strange, generous kind of quiet — streetlights, falling snow, and a plow working its way along Genesee Avenue. Waddell Company Inc keeps that night shift: plowing commercial lots and drives, clearing entrances and walkways, and salting the spots that freeze first. Storms on this lake plain often end with a hard temperature drop, which turns slush into a problem if nobody gets ahead of it. The work gets measured in doors that open on time and nobody sliding on the way in. When the city wakes up, the surfaces are simply there under everyone's feet.