At three in the morning the commercial strips off Pine Hollow Road are empty and blue, and that is exactly the hour this work belongs to. Commercial Snow Service plows lots, clears sidewalks and spreads salt so the first person through the door at seven finds bare pavement and never thinks about it again. Storms crossing the Sound tend to arrive wet and heavy here, the kind that packs to a rind under tires if you let it sit. So the passes get made early and again while it is still falling, with the piles stacked where they will not swallow a lane at daylight. The reward is a parking lot that looks ordinary on a morning that is not.