At four in the morning the Northway is a line of orange lights past Exit 9, and the rest of Clifton Park is still asleep under six new inches. Coty's Lawn Care & Snow Removal is out in it — driveways opened, walks shoveled to the door, salt down where the shade keeps ice late. The point of the whole night is simple: a neighbor backs out at six-thirty and never thinks about the storm at all. Capital Region snow rarely arrives politely, and the work carries on through the wind off the Mohawk and the drifting that follows it. Plowing runs across Clifton Park, Halfmoon, Round Lake and Waterford.