A nor'easter announces itself in Torne Valley hours ahead of the snow — the pressure drops, the pines start moving, and the whole notch goes quiet in that particular way. Michael L Naclerio Inc stages before it lands and runs straight through, plowing the long drives out toward the New Jersey line where the nearest streetlight is somebody's porch. Storms that stall over Rockland can drop two feet in a night, and the only way to handle that is to keep cutting it down as it comes instead of waiting for the end. By morning the drives are open to the pavement, the banks are back off the shoulders and the entries are salted. Snow removal, storm after storm, in Ramapo.