The wind that comes down the Mohawk Valley on a clipper night does not fall so much as pour, and out past Freemans Bridge it will fill a driveway back in behind you before the taillights are gone. ARK landscaping & Plow plans around that — first pass early, second pass once the wind lays down, banks pushed back far enough to hold whatever is still coming. Walks get shoveled to the door, not to the general vicinity of it. Salt goes where river damp turns to glass at daybreak. In Schenectady and the river towns beside it, a storm is measured by how easily people leave in the morning.