At Dover Point the tide runs hard beneath the bridge, and in January the cold comes off that water with nothing at all to slow it. Timber Falls Tree Care answers Dover's winters at ground level — plowing driveways, clearing walkways and steps, blowing out drifts, sanding and salting where wet snow glazes over by morning. Coastal storms can begin as rain and change while you stand watching, which is the hardest kind to stay ahead of. So the route runs late and then runs again early. The measure of it is plain: bare pavement, an open walk, a door that opens onto a normal day.