Nor'easters climb the coast and find Mercer County sitting right on the seam, where a couple of degrees decide whether Hamilton gets rain, sleet or the real thing. Five Star Landscape Solutions watches that line the way other people watch a ballgame, because the answer sets the hour the trucks roll. The work is plowing, shoveling, salting and de-icing across the township's driveways, walkways and lots — ahead of the morning, not after it. Wet Jersey snow is heavy freight, and getting under it early is the difference between a clean surface and a rutted one. By the time the sky opens up over the township, the pavement is already dark and wet and draining.