A nor'easter comes up the coast and Perth Amboy takes the wet half of it, snow that lands heavy and sets like mortar by morning. Pauls General Construction runs snow removal here — plowing, shoveling walks, salting the spots that glaze over first. The work happens at hours nobody sees: the lights of the Victory Bridge blurred in the murk, streets empty, the scrape of a blade the only sound on the block. What people see is the after — a driveway open at six, a walk down to bare concrete, a car that gets out without a fight. In a city that gets up early for work, that is the whole job.