The first real snow of December usually comes in quietly, an hour of flakes drifting over the woods at Downs Farm Preserve before anything sticks to the road. Create-A-Scape, Inc. watches for that turn and goes out on it, plowing driveways and lots, clearing walks and steps, and salting the places that will refreeze once the sun drops. South Jersey storms like to arrive as rain and change over late, which makes timing half of the job. Snow moved while it's still light and dry spares everyone the slush and the sheet of ice hiding underneath it. When the last pass leaves a driveway open all the way to the garage door, the morning ahead of it gets simple again.