Storms find the north end of Hopatcong first, up where Espanong Road runs the high ground and the wind comes across open water with nothing to slow it. Cypress Tree Service, LLC turns out on those nights, clearing driveways and walkways so a household wakes to a way out instead of a wall. Elevation counts here — the borough can be under four inches while the valley is only wet. The work is plowing, shoveling to the doorstep, and treating the ice that forms where a drive drops toward the road. Quiet, unglamorous, and the whole difference between an ordinary morning and a stuck one.