February in Hawthorne is a thaw-and-freeze month: puddles by afternoon, glass by ten at night, and every driveway apron a small hazard. Plow Saver Curb Guards clears and treats straight through it — plowing driveways, shoveling steps and walkways, salting the aprons and the shaded strips where ice keeps coming back for another try. The aim is a surface a person can cross without thinking about it. Storms get run as they fall and again once the plow line hardens up at the street. There is a plain pride in a driveway opened to the pavement, edge to edge.