When a nor'easter winds up off the Jersey coast, West Freehold feels it first as a pressure in the air and then as wet, heavy flakes falling almost straight down at dusk. Al's Exterior Cleaning goes out into that — clearing driveways and parking areas, opening walkways and steps, laying salt where a slope wants to turn to glass overnight. Coastal snow is its own kind of work, dense as wet sand, and the trick is staying ahead of it rather than fighting it at the end. Between passes the streetlights come on and the whole township goes soft and orange, and there's something worth staying up for in that. Homes and small commercial properties around West Freehold, Freehold Township and the nearby Monmouth County towns.