Freezing rain makes the harder night — no drifts to push, just a glaze setting over everything in the shoulder of Hook Mountain. Polar Snow and Ice Solutions, LLC works Montville through those hours, plowing what falls, shoveling walks down to bare surface and salting so the glaze never gets a grip. Ice is a patient problem; it wants the low corner, the shaded step, the spot where a downspout drains across the pavement. Getting ahead of it is the craft. When morning comes and a driveway is simply wet instead of treacherous, that is the job done.