March snow in Michigan is the heavy kind — wet, dense, dropped a foot deep on the driveways off Southfield Road and gone from the maple branches by noon. Yarber Home Maintenance LLC handles it while it is still dark: plowing the drive open, clearing the walkway and front steps down to concrete, cutting a path to the mailbox, and salting where meltwater will run and refreeze after sundown. The main roads through the city clear early, which only makes an unplowed apron more obvious — and more of a problem for whoever has to leave at seven. The work is answering the storm promptly, then coming back for the ridge the plow leaves at the end of the drive. Getting out of your own driveway should not be the hardest part of a winter morning.