Winter in Bergenfield tends to announce itself overnight: nothing at eleven, and by five the whole town is under six inches with every driveway shut. O'Brother Tree Service LLC works that hour — plowing drives open, shoveling walkways, front steps and the strip out to the curb, then salting the places that will refreeze once the sun drops behind the houses. Storms here come in off the ocean and can turn to rain and back again, which makes ice the real adversary, not depth. The work runs through the storm and after it, one property to the next, until people can get where they need to go. There is nothing quite like the sight of a cleared drive you never had to think about.