In winter the Erie Canal through the city sits drained and still, its stone walls furred with frost, and at four in the morning the loudest thing on the street is a blade finding pavement. Ingersoll Lawn Care and Snowplowing LLC is that sound — driveways, walkways and lots opened while the neighborhood is still asleep. Storms on this side of the county stack up for days at a stretch, so the work is less a single job than a long relay of passes, banks pushed well back to leave room for whatever comes next. Ice control goes where it earns its keep: the shaded drive, the north-facing step that never once sees the sun. Plowing for North Tonawanda, Tonawanda, Pendleton and Wheatfield.