Three in the morning on Adams Road, snow coming sideways through the streetlights, and hardly anyone awake to see it. Penguin Snow Removal works that shift — plowing driveways and lots, clearing walks and steps, treating the surface so the afternoon melt doesn't set up hard by dawn. Troy takes its winter in installments, a few inches at a time across four long months, and each one has to be answered before the commute begins. There is a genuine pleasure in the last look back at a finished drive: black pavement, banked edges, nothing left to do. Then the truck rolls on to the next one, and the town wakes up to clear ground.