Clippers come down out of the northwest over Clintonville Road with very little warning — three inches by midnight, drifting by two. Cedar Creek Landscaping is awake for that, running the routes while the township sleeps and the plow lights swing across the banks. A drive pushed square to the garage door, a walk shoveled to the concrete, a turnaround wide enough to back out of without a second thought: that is the whole job, and it is done before the alarm clocks go off. Waterford winters are long and they repeat, so each storm gets the same treatment as the first one did. Morning comes, and the driveway is simply open.