The hard storms here arrive in the dark, and the rain-snow line often parks itself right over I-80, so Parsippany can be slush at the highway and four inches deep on the back step. Backyard Backup Services goes out into that, plowing driveways and clearing the paths people actually use to reach a car, a door, a garbage can. There is a specific kind of pride in a driveway cut clean to the blacktop before the first alarm clock goes off. Salt goes down on the walk, the apron gets squared off, and the storm stops being anyone's problem. Morning comes and the day just starts, which is the entire point of the job.