Wind off Greenwich Bay crosses the water at Scalloptown with nothing to slow it down, and East Greenwich snow tends to arrive wet, dense and quick to set. MBC Contracting Services takes the overnight side of that, plowing drives and lots along the harbor edge and up through the streets behind it. Heavy coastal snow is a different weight altogether — it has to be moved before it turns to concrete, and moved again if the storm decides to swing back around. De-icer goes onto the flats near the water where freeze and thaw play their games, and walks are opened by hand where a blade cannot follow. By sunrise the boatyards and the driveways look ordinary again, which is exactly what the night was for.