Snow finds Lakewood from two directions — up the coast as a nor'easter off the Atlantic, or straight down out of a cold Ocean County sky — and either way it makes for a long night. Ruiz Landscaping LLC works those hours, when Cedar Bridge Avenue holds a single set of tracks and the signals swing over an empty stretch of Route 9. Plows run the driveways, shovels take the walks and the steps, and salt goes down where ice would otherwise sit and harden by morning. By the time the first cars ease out toward work, the pavement is dark and wet again. That is the whole aim of it, storm after storm, in Lakewood and out through Brick, Howell, Jackson and Toms River.