A nor'easter announces itself out here long before it lands: the sky over the Cape May County Airport goes flat white and the flags at Erma stiffen toward the northeast. Douglass Landscaping watches for that and works the storm itself rather than the morning after. Plows push driveways open, shovels take walkways down to bare pavement, and de-icer goes where the sun will not reach until noon. Between passes the trucks circle back, because a wet coastal snow can refill a cleared drive twice before daylight. When Lower Township wakes up, the way out is already there.