Phillipsburg is a town built on a slant, and every winter the hill streets above the Delaware prove it. Deegan Brothers Roofing & Siding takes on the snow work here — plowing drives that climb, shoveling walks down to bare concrete, laying salt where a north-facing grade holds ice long after the sky has cleared. There is a particular satisfaction in beating the sunrise: headlights swinging in off the street, the blade dropping, a clean black lane where an hour earlier there was none. By the time the town wakes and the buses start their runs, the pitch is passable and the steps are safe to use. That is the whole of the job, and it is worth doing right.