The first real storm usually turns up in November, sliding up the Winooski valley and dropping onto the hills above Fort Ethan Allen before anyone has quite finished getting ready. Eric's Excavating, Inc. is out in it — clearing lots and drives on the streets around Severance Hill, where every grade is a small argument with gravity. Good snow work is partly about stacking: putting the pile where it will not be in the way come March, not simply moving it tonight. Entries get shoveled, approaches get treated, and there is a second pass for the ridge the town plow leaves across the end of a driveway. Snow removal across Colchester and the towns beside it.