Braddock Bay freezes flat and white, and the wind that crosses it keeps right on going into the neighborhoods behind. Great Lakes Property Services works that lakeshore edge of Rochester all winter — plowing drives and parking lots, clearing walkways down to the surface, salting the spots that ice over first. Lake-effect does not negotiate; it drops what it drops, and the trucks go back out. What the season asks for is persistence, and what it gives back is a row of open driveways at first light. That row is the only scoreboard that counts out here.