A squall can come over Eastwood at two in the afternoon and turn James Street white before the buses have finished their runs. Twins Property Maintenance watches for exactly that and gets out ahead of it, plowing driveways and lots and clearing the front walks so nobody is picking their way over frozen ruts at dusk. Salt goes down where the shade holds and the melt refreezes overnight, because the north side of a house is its own small climate. Winter here doesn't arrive as one dramatic event; it arrives in installments, all week long, and the answer is not heroics but coming back again and again while the sky keeps at it. There is quiet pride in a property that looks the same after a storm as it did the morning before.