When the wind swings southwest, Lake Erie sends a band ashore and a whole night can vanish behind it. Snow Removal Services of Buffalo works inside those hours — plowing driveways and parking lots, clearing walks and doorways down to the pavement, salting the places that refreeze before sunrise. There is nothing complicated about the method: get the machine out, take the lot in passes, come back when the band sets up again. What anyone else sees is simpler still — an open drive at six in the morning, with the piles stacked where they won't block the view pulling out. On the far side of a storm, that is the entire point of the night.