You can usually feel an Essex storm before you see it, when the light flattens, the wind swings around to the northwest, and the lake starts sending squalls up the valley one after another. Jeffrey Danaher Property Management is out ahead of them all winter, plowing driveways, clearing parking areas and shoveling walks and steps around Essex and the Browns River side of town. The work is measured in hours nobody sees: the two o'clock pass, the touch-up after the wind puts the drifts back, the sanded step that keeps somebody upright at six. A cleared driveway is a small piece of order carved out of a very large weather system, and handing that back to a household every storm is worth the alarm clock. Winter here runs long; the job is to keep it navigable.