The madrona and big-leaf maple that cling to Edmonds' bluff above the water don't carry snow well — their branches are built for rain, not weight — so K&J Tree Works knows that the first calls after a real snowfall are usually about limbs down across a driveway or a walkway, not the snow itself. The crew works those calls block by block through the middle of the day, once there's enough light to see which branches are still loaded and likely to drop next. A cleared driveway still blocked by a fallen limb isn't cleared at all, so the two jobs go together here more than almost anywhere else in town. Streets nearer the water tend to lose limbs first, since the wind off the Sound reaches those trees before it's slowed by the bluff behind them. Once the debris is off a driveway, the crew finishes with a shovel pass, since snow melts fast under a cleared canopy but leaves the ground beneath it wet and re-icing by evening. By midafternoon, with the light already starting to lean west over the water, most of the day's calls are done.