A squall crossing Transit Road can cut visibility to a car length and then hand back blue sky ten minutes later. Empire Snow works inside those windows all winter, plowing drives and lots, opening walks, and treating the ice that follows every thaw. Dispatch runs on the storm's clock rather than the calendar's, which around Buffalo can mean November and can just as easily mean April. Once the ground warms for good, the mowing season opens — cutting, trimming, edging, and cleanups at the front and back of the year. Whatever the sky sends across the lake, the route still gets run.