Weather arrives in Concord out of the northwest, over the Bow hills, and you can usually watch it come for an hour before it lands. Northeast Top Notch Landworks is loaded and rolling by then, working the hilly drives out toward Broken Ground where a grade and a foot of snow make an unhappy pair. The work is plowing, clearing and the second pass along the banks so the next storm still has somewhere to go. Done right, a driveway gets wider as winter goes on instead of narrower. You can measure it in March, when everybody else's turnaround has closed up to a single lane.