The flat ground along Ley Creek is loading docks, truck aprons and acres of asphalt that have to work whether or not it snowed six inches overnight. Global Industrial Services clears that kind of property in Syracuse — plowing the yards and lots wide open, stacking the piles clear of the dock doors, shoveling the walks and salting the lanes where trailers turn. Industrial snow has a scale of its own; a drift across a gate is not an inconvenience, it is a stopped shift. Storms here come off the lake in waves through the night, so the crew works in passes rather than waiting for a finish. By first light the pavement is dark, the doors are reachable and the place runs.