Snow finds the millyard first. It comes down the Merrimack over Amoskeag Falls and packs into the brick canyons along Commercial Street, where the wind has nowhere to go but sideways. Banks Land & Snow Management works the hours before the city wakes — plowing lots and driveways, opening walkways down to bare pavement, spreading sand and salt where the shade keeps the ice honest. A cleared entrance at six in the morning is a small, complete thing: no drama, just a black lane and the snow stacked well out of the way. They stay with a storm from the first inch to the last scrape, and come back when the wind fills a drive in again.