Syracuse rolls more than most of southeast Nebraska expects, the hills around town dropping toward Weeping Water Creek in folds that keep some yards shaded and slow to thaw long after others have gone bare, and Sprague Lawn and Landscape works those same folds in winter with a plow blade instead of a mower. Otoe County snow tends to linger longest on the north-facing slopes near the creek, so those addresses get the first pass of the morning before the crew works back uphill toward the flatter blocks near the town square. Summer work here means shaping beds and keeping lawns across a landscape that never quite sits level; winter simply asks the same attention to be paid to a driveway's pitch instead of its grass. By midmorning the square usually has the look of a town that's already put the storm behind it—walks bare, drives scraped to the gravel or the concrete beneath. It's a hilly little town, and clearing it properly means reading the ground as carefully as the sky.