The Pell Bridge strings its lights across the bay all winter, and on a snowy evening you can watch a squall cross the water long before it reaches the north end streets. Newport Construction Services uses that head start — trucks staged, blades down at the first inch instead of the fourth, lots and driveways plowed while the storm is still building. Walks and entries get shoveled, ice gets salted and sanded, and the piles go where they will not eat a parking space for the rest of the month. Weather coming over the bay carries moisture, and it stiffens up fast once the cold follows in behind. Having Newport open by morning is an honest morning's work.