Out toward the Wyckoff line the driveways get long and a fair number of them are still gravel, which changes everything a plow does. Perfection Excavating LLC clears Franklin Lakes through the winter — plowing, opening walkways and turnarounds, and treating ice on the pitches where a truck would otherwise slide. On a gravel run the blade rides a hair high so the stone stays put and the snow still goes; on blacktop it comes right down to the surface. Storms here often begin as rain, and what falls at midnight decides how the morning has to be handled. The measure of a night is simple enough: can everybody get out.