Wenham Lake was once cut for ice and shipped halfway around the world, which tells you plenty about a Beverly January. Iron Tree Service turns to snow removal when that cold arrives — plowing driveways, clearing walkways and entries, shoveling out steps, laying salt where the daytime melt runs and locks up again overnight. Nothing about it is gentle: it's dark, it's loud, and it's finished before most people have found their boots. Storms come off the ocean and stall over the North Shore, and the only answer is to go back out and do it a second time. Bare pavement in the morning is the only report worth giving.