The first light after a storm in Paramus is blue and absolute — every roofline and hedge softened, nobody's footprints anywhere yet. The Salas Brothers Cleaning Company goes out into that: plowing driveways open, shoveling steps and walkways down to the surface, salting so the path holds through the day. Snow looks generous from a warm window and considerably less so from a front door you cannot get out of. Clearing it is plain, useful work, finished the moment somebody can walk to their car without thinking about it. That is the standard the storm gets held to.