Cheektowaga wakes early in winter, and AJD Snow Plowing LLC wakes earlier. The wind comes off Lake Erie and crosses the flat lake plain with nothing to slow it, so a driveway on Union Road can fill twice between supper and sunrise. That is the work: pushing it back, cutting the walkways clean, laying salt where the melt will refreeze by morning. There is real satisfaction in a lot that looks untouched by the storm — asphalt showing, edges square, the car out on time. Snow clearing across Cheektowaga and the streets around it, one drive at a time.