Coastal snow is its own animal — heavy, wet, driven in off the Sound, piling onto Branford's low streets and glazing over by morning. J&M LANDSCAPING & SNOWPLOWING runs against it: plowing drives and lots, shoveling walks and steps down to the surface, salting and sanding where the wind scours a path bare and then ices it. Storms that stall along the shoreline change to rain and back again, which means going out early and going out a second time. What counts is a driveway open at dawn and a walk that isn't a hazard at noon. Branford and the towns around it, whatever the Sound sends in.