Out past Teggerdine Road the fields open up, and when the wind gets behind a snowfall it does not fall so much as travel — sideways, drifting a cleared drive shut again inside twenty minutes. STS Snow Removal runs the pre-dawn shift against that in White Lake Township: plowing drives and lots, opening walks and steps, salting the shaded stretches that hold ice long after the sun is up. Drifting country means coming back, and coming back is part of the arrangement. There is something steadying about being the only headlights out at five with the whole route still ahead. By seven it is finished, and nobody has to think about it.