Patterson holds the upper end of the Great Swamp, where wet ground grows soft-wood trees fast and then loses its grip on their roots in a storm. Alfredo's Septic & Tree Removal works the yards along that low country — tree removal once a trunk has begun leaning toward the house, tree trimming to hold limbs clear of wires and gutters, pruning that leaves a tree with one good leader instead of three arguments. After a hard blow crosses the Putnam hills, storm damage cleanup is the whole day: cut, drag, chip, sweep, gone. Frost reaches those hollows early and firms the ground up, which is when the heaviest work gets done. A yard that drains and a canopy that holds together is a fair thing to leave behind you.