A coastal storm arrives in Hempstead sideways — wet, salted air pushing up from the South Shore, the flakes turning fat and heavy by two in the morning. S.E. Landscaping, Inc works those hours: plowing driveways and parking lots, shoveling walks, steps and mailbox aprons, then salting and de-icing the spots that will glaze over the moment the wind swings around. Hempstead Turnpike is moving again long before daylight, and the whole night is timed to that — a driveway open before the first shift pulls out, a lot cleared before the doors unlock. The reward is plain at first light: black pavement end to end, banks pushed back past the curb line, a walk anybody can cross in ordinary shoes. Snow and ice work throughout Hempstead and the villages around it.