Storms reach Horseheads from the west, dropping over the hills past Big Flats with the sky going flat gray a full hour ahead of them. Verna & Sons LLC watches that line and goes out beneath it — plowing driveways and lots, clearing walkways, salting the entries where ice likes to set up first. A January night here can hand you six inches and a wind to rearrange it, and the answer is simply to keep making passes until the ground is open again. Nothing about a bare black driveway at daybreak looks dramatic, which is exactly the point of it. Horseheads and the towns around it, whenever the snow means business.