The Erie Canal runs the northern edge of Amherst inside Tonawanda Creek, and when that water freezes the cold on the far side comes with a stillness you can almost hear. Plowing out there at midnight is a solitary business: headlights, falling flakes, the scrape and the backup beep. Fergusons Landscaping and Plowing runs snow through those hours — driveways cut to the ground beneath, aprons opened, walks shoveled and salted before anyone's alarm goes off. Storms do not schedule themselves, so the route repeats for as long as it needs to. Morning comes to a town that can move.