Snow crosses forty miles of open lake before it reaches Newport, and it lands heavy on the bluff streets above the harbor. Tom's Property Maintenance & Snow is out ahead of it, plowing driveways and lots in the blue hour before a single car turns over in the city. Walks get shoveled down to bare pavement; banks get shouldered back wide so the next storm has somewhere to go. A cleared drive at half past five is a small thing right up until the morning you have to be somewhere, and then it is the entire day. That is what the work is for, storm after storm, from the first sticking snow to the last April surprise.