A central Jersey storm rarely decides what it is until it is on top of you — snow at midnight over Middlesex, sleet by two, a glaze on everything by the time the sky goes gray. NMA Plowing & Snow Removal reads that all night: plowing driveways and lots, shoveling steps and walks by hand, spreading salt where the ice wants to set. The borough's flat streets hold meltwater and then freeze it again, so the second trip out often matters more than the first. Nothing here is more satisfying than a driveway apron cut square to the curb line at five in the morning. When the plows have gone past and buried the entrance again, the truck comes back.