Somewhere near dawn on Girdle Road there will be a line of fox tracks crossing a driveway that was plowed an hour earlier, which means somebody was out in the dark. Flying Fox WNY LLC runs snow removal for Elma — driveways, parking areas, walkways, and salting where the melt refreezes into something dangerous. The plow goes where it needs to go and the pile goes where it will not block a sightline. A storm that keeps coming gets a second pass, and a third if the wind keeps drifting the same corner shut. There is a particular quiet at that hour, and a particular satisfaction in leaving clean pavement behind.