At three in the morning the traffic on Route 400 thins to almost nothing, and that is when the plows head out across Elma. American Landscaping & Snowplowing takes the driveways and lots first, then the walks and steps, then salt wherever ice wants to set up before sunrise. By the time coffee is going in the kitchens, the blacktop is black again. The other half of the year those same trucks carry mowers — cutting, trimming, mulching beds and running the spring and fall cleanups once the ground lets go of winter. Snow country teaches you to be early, and the habit carries straight through to July.