Winter in Sault Ste. Marie is not an event, it is the climate — snow off Superior stacking week on week until the banks stand higher than a truck hood. Kaysner Construction Inc plows through it in the dark hours, opening drives and lots ahead of dawn, then coming back when the wind refills whatever was just cleared. Walks are shoveled down to the surface and treated where the freeze and thaw turn yesterday's melt into glass, and the piles get pushed back early in the season so there is somewhere to put February. Nobody up here mistakes one storm for a winter, and the route is run accordingly. The reward is plain: an open drive and headlights pulling out on time.