Storm season gets to Williamson County early. By March the warm air is already pushing up from the south, and Herrin knows how the afternoon goes: the sky turns green-gray, a pin oak gives up a limb, and by morning somebody needs a saw. C&C Tree Service does that work and the work that heads it off — trimming and pruning ahead of the season, removals where a root plate has begun to lift, storm damage cleanup once the front has passed on toward the Shawnee hills. Out past the refuge the timber runs thick and the yards run right into it, and keeping those two on speaking terms is most of the job. Herrin, Carterville, Energy, Johnston City and Marion are all close by.