The Tonawanda Creek flats south of Akron freeze hard and thaw early, and February here will hand you eight inches of powder on Tuesday and standing water on Friday. RCG Services LLC plans for both — plowing clean to the surface, treating the slick spots the thaw leaves behind, and reopening the ends of driveways when the county truck fills them back in. Once the ground firms up in spring the work turns to mowing, string trimming, and raking out everything the runoff stranded along the fence lines. Summer settles into a routine of even cuts and clean lines, week over week, without much fuss. A property tended through the ugly months carries that into the green ones.