Some Mohawk Valley storms never decide what they are — dry snow up on the Balltown Road ridges, sleet ticking down where the land drops toward the river. Lawn Logic / Nesco Services reads those nights closely, because one inch behaves one way on a shaded north-facing drive and another way on an open one. Plow the run, chase the corners a blade cannot reach, then put salt where the daytime melt will slide down and lock up again by dawn. What they are after is a driveway a car can back out of without anyone hesitating at the wheel. Snow clearing and ice work for Schenectady and the ridge towns above it.