Lake Erie sends its snow east on a west wind, and Attica takes its share of it overnight. Nicks Lawncare LLC is out in the dark well before the alarms go off — plowing, shoveling, clearing driveways and lots so the first trip of the day is only a drive and not a decision. Then the thaw comes, Tonawanda Creek runs full through the village, and the mowers go back out for cutting, trimming, edging and the spring and fall cleanups that lawns here ask for the moment the ground lets go. Two entirely different kinds of morning, one habit: be there before the day starts. Attica and the towns around it, straight through the calendar.