Every storm starts as a waiting game — radar over the Raritan, the first flakes ticking against a windshield on Weston Canal Road, then the call to go. American Landscape LLC handles the winter side of Franklin Township: plowing drives and lots, clearing walkways down to bare pavement, spreading salt on the shaded stretches that stay slick long after everything else has dried. Out along the canal the wind stacks drift back over ground you cleared an hour ago, so you go around again. Come daylight the township looks completely unremarkable, which is the entire point of the night.