Freight moves through Wixom before daylight does — I-96 humming west toward Brighton while the industrial drives sit dark and unmarked. Angelo's Wholesale works that hour, plowing lots and driveways so the first shift finds pavement instead of a problem. Oakland County winters arrive in pieces: a clipper overnight, three inches of powder, then a hard freeze that welds it down by morning. Salt goes where the grade tips and the meltwater runs, and the entrances open clean and square. There is a real satisfaction in a lot that looks like nothing ever happened to it.