Retail Albany starts moving at five in the morning, which means the lots along Wolf Road and out toward Latham need to be finished by four thirty. Snow removal for commercial property runs on that clock: plowing the drive lanes, opening the entrances, clearing walks and stacking snow where it won't eat the parking, then salting so the first arrivals never give it a thought. Storms pay no attention to business hours, so the route gets run again midday when wind refills what was already cleared. Property management is really the management of small emergencies, and snow is the most predictable of them all. Doors open, pavement bare, nobody late — that is the shape of a good storm.