A nor'easter announces itself on Joline Avenue an hour before it lands — the wind swings, the gulls go quiet, and the first flakes come in flat and sideways. Cruz Tree Service, LLC works those nights: plowing driveways, opening lots, clearing sidewalks and steps, laying down salt while the storm is still deciding how long to stay. Shore snow is heavy, wet stuff that sets like mortar if it sits, so the trick is going early and going again. Dawn is the reward — a drive cut down to the pavement, a walk you can carry groceries across, a street of people who get to have an ordinary morning. That is the whole point of the work.