Snow falling into Hempstead Harbor vanishes; snow falling on the roads above it does not. North Shore Landscaping handles the second half of that arrangement, plowing, shoveling and salting along the harbor road and the streets climbing away from the water, where wind off the beach park keeps pushing drift back across the pavement. February storms are often a single degree from being rain, which makes for heavy pushing and a hard freeze behind it. Clearing gets done early and then done again, because the harbor gives every storm a second act. A driveway opened before sunrise is the plain, unglamorous gift of the whole winter.