Snow arrives in Ocean County with an argument in it — the ocean keeps trying to turn it back to rain, and the line wobbles somewhere over Route 9 all night long. Albert Tree Removal & Landscaping watches that line and goes out the moment it commits to the white side, plowing driveways and lots while the sky is still the color of slate. By the time the small planes on Cedar Bridge Avenue are shaking frost off their wings, the aprons and walkways are open and treated. Wet coastal snow is heavy work, especially the packed ridge the town plow leaves across the end of a drive; that gets broken up and carried off, not smeared around. The reward is plain enough — a car backing out at seven without a single spin of the tires.