A buggy makes its way along snowy Mount Pleasant Road, north of Quarryville, in southern Lancaster County on Sunday afternoon.
Motorists negotiate tough driving conditions on Columbia Avenue near Stone Mill Plaza Sunday.
A van moves through blowing snow on Furnace Road near Georgetown in southern Lancaster County Sunday afternoon.
A horse endures the snow and cold along Mt. Pleasant Road, south of Strasburg on Sunday.
Lancaster County residents should get used to that "winter wonderland" look.
It won't be changing anytime soon.
With temperatures expected to stay below freezing for most of the week, and fresh snow on its way — likely Tuesday and Wednesday — the snow that fell during Friday and Saturday's storm should be around for a while.
"Once we've plowed it into the snow banks, its really hard to remove it," said Charlotte Katzenmoyer, Lancaster' city's public works director.
Sixteen city snow plows continued working to clear the streets Sunday, downsizing to a skeleton crew in the evening, Katzenmoyer said.
Lancaster Mayor Rick Gray lifted a snow emergency in the city at 2 p.m. Sunday. That allowed residents to again park vehicles along the city's designated snow emergency routes, which include most of the city's main thoroughfares.
City residents who parked vehicles in the city's four public parking garages, which were opened to them Friday, have until 7:30 this morning to move their vehicles or else they will be charged, Katzenmoyer said.
SLIDESHOW: Lancaster County copes with snow
Gov. Ed Rendell declared a statewide snow emergency on Saturday. That declaration, which was urged by the director of the state's Emergency Management Agency, allowed governmental agencies to hire help for clearing roads or buy supplies without going through the time-consuming bid-and-contract process.
The declaration also allows the governor to call up the National Guard to support the state police, if necessary.
Between 6 and 30 inches of snow fell on Pennsylvania from Friday afternoon through Saturday afternoon, with some of the deepest snowfall totals recorded in southern Lancaster County.
Quarryville got nearly 26 inches of snow, while Lancaster city received 20 inches and New Holland 19. Elizabeth Township, at the county's northern edge, got about 15 inches.
Across the state, there were more than 160,000 power outages reported by midday Saturday. By Sunday evening, PPL Electric was reporting that 837 customers were without power in Lancaster County. Most of those customers, 743, were in Bart Township. The remaining 94 were in Lancaster Township.
A PPL spokesman did not immediately return a call for comment Sunday.
By Sunday evening, all of Lancaster County's 16 public school districts and most private schools had announced they would open two hours late this morning.
State Transportation Department crews remained busy Sunday. Having plowed Lancaster County's primary roads, PennDOT's 52 trucks concentrated on secondary roads, said PennDOT spokesman Mike Crochunis.
By Sunday afternoon, the drivers were plowing the snow on the shoulders of the roads in an effort to keep any melted snow from refreezing in the travel lanes overnight, Crochunis said.
"We should be in pretty good shape for (this) morning," he said Sunday.
At noon Sunday, PennDOT lifted the 45-mph speed limit that had been temporarily imposed on Route 283 in the county.
In Lancaster city, Katzenmoyer said, "We've been going around the clock since Friday."
The plows were clearing the streets, but had not yet begun the time-consuming work of removing the snow. That will come later this week as crews go block by block, loading snow into trucks and hauling it to parking lots, fields and other sites where the city has permission to dump.
The city stopped dumping snow into the Conestoga River in the late 1980s because the salt and chemicals used to treat the snow are harmful to fish and other aquatic life, Katzenmoyer said.
Meanwhile, city residents are piling snow on corners as they dig out parking spaces.
In some areas, such as Cabbage Hill, the streets are too narrow to allow snow removal. Katzenmoyer said a back hoe does not have enough room to turn and dump snow into a truck on most of Cabbage Hill's streets.
"There is not a whole lot you can do to get snow out of there," she said.
Katzenmoyer said the city will delay enforcing its rules against residents placing chairs, trash cans or other items in curbside parking spaces. She said Public Works crews likely would begin collecting the items later in the week, when they shift from salting and plowing to removing the snow.