Hadar holds only a handful of streets inside a much larger stretch of Pierce County cropland, flat enough that a front moving down out of the Dakotas can be seen building on the horizon a good while before it ever reaches town. Uprooted works that open ground with a single crew, plowing farmstead lanes and the village's short streets in whatever order the wind and drifting demand rather than any fixed route. A Nebraska arctic front doesn't so much arrive as arrive twice — the snow first, then the wind behind it reworking whatever was already cleared — so the company plans on a second pass as a matter of course out here. Between Hadar and the larger towns around it, driveways sit miles apart more often than blocks apart, and the crew measures its day in gravel roads covered rather than houses visited. What's left after a hard front passes is a scattering of open drives across flat, wide-sky country, Hadar and its farmland neighbors both kept reachable through the winter.