By February the back steps are where winter really lives — the deck buried, the path to the garage gone, the narrow bridge of shoveled ground you need just to get out the door. D&S Deck clears that side of a Niagara Falls property as carefully as the front: walkways opened, steps and landings scraped down, salt where the ice keeps setting up. Out toward Gill Creek the snow arrives wet and heavy and then it simply sits. Plowing takes the bulk of it; the shovel handles the part that matters when someone is carrying groceries in both arms. Small, unglamorous, and the difference between a housebound day and a normal one.