A plow does its job Wednesday on Route 19 in Cranberry Township.

Mike Mattis, PennDOT's Butler County maintenance manager, said that three inches of snow was dumped on the county in just three hours Wednesday morning.

“We got a lot of snow real quick,” he said.

Mattis is thankful that the snow ended around noon, so crews could attend to all state roads in the county.

“Now that it stopped and transitioned to drizzle, it gave us time to clear out and clean up,” he said.

Trooper James Long, spokesman for the state police Butler barracks, said he was in the city in the morning. He called Butler “a mess.”

He said he witnessed a tractor-trailer get stuck on Center Avenue as the driver tried to navigate up the slippery hill.

“The main roads for the most part are passable now, but the city was pretty rough this morning,” he said.

Long said among the 10 or so crashes to which emergency personnel were dispatched by the 911 center in the morning, many were on Interstate 79.

He said once the snow onslaught slowed, the salt spread by state and local crews had a chance to do its job due to the moderating temperatures.

“Don't go out on the roads until you absolutely need to,” Long said of driving in heavy snow. “Let the crews finish their job.” He praised the job done by PennDOT crews, who plowed and salted only to see the road whitening again in their rear-view mirrors.

“Honestly, I think they've done a pretty good job,” Long said. “It came down so fast and hard.”