Di Palantino Contractors

About Di Palantino Contractors

Snow reaches Middle Township sideways more often than straight down — a nor'easter comes up the coast, the wind swings, and what falls is wet, heavy and full of brine. Di Palantino Contractors runs those nights: plowing driveways and lots, salting where the melt will refreeze, clearing the walks and the mouth of the drive where the county truck leaves its ridge. Most of it happens between two and six in the morning, in the orange wash of a plow light on Delsea Drive, so the ramps and the parking aprons are open before anyone needs them. There is a particular satisfaction in a lot finished at first light — bare asphalt, the piles pushed where they won't drift back across the entrance. Down here a storm is short, which means the cleanup has to be shorter.