Weather conditions on Thursday caused much of the snow blanketing Warren County to melt. All that water had to go somewhere.

Responders fielded numerous public service and mutual aid calls Friday as individuals asked for help as rising waters threatened and entered homes.

Several roads were flooded, and at least two vehicles were reported stuck in standing water.

But, it all, the flooding was manageable.

Times Observer photo by Brian Ferry A PennDOT crew attempts to clear a blocked pipe that passes beneath Jackson Run Road in Conewango Township on Friday as water covered more than half the road. Crew members used hand tools and an excavator and a plow truck moved some of the water out of the area.

“This isn’t what we anticipated,” Warren County Public Safety Director Ken McCorrison said Friday afternoon. “We thought it could have been a lot worse.”

“A lot of the ancillary streams, they went over their banks,” McCorrison said. “But in the majority of places they did it in unpopulated areas.”

Some of the high-water events were short-lived.

“It appears that the ice will jam up in places, the water will back up, but as soon as the ice clears the water will recede,” he said.

On Jackson Run Road in Conewango Township, a frozen or blocked pipe caused water to back up and flood the road.

A PennDOT crew was using hand tools and an excavator to clear the jam and a plow to move some of the water.

The crew was allowing traffic to pass the area in one direction at a time when possible. The highest part of the road — the westbound lane at the berm — did not have standing water on it. Near the center of the road there were several inches of water and at the north berm, the water was standing more than a foot deep.

Flooded roads were reported at numerous locations in the county, including on routes 957 and 59 and Priest Hollow Road. A portion of Main Street/Tidioute Creek Road was closed in Tidioute and Triumph Township, according to PennDOT.

Warm temperatures on Thursday melted much of the snow in the county. Rain came through later adding to the water needing a place to go.

Those conditions also contributed to a dense fog shrouding much of the county Thursday night.

“Fog did play a role in people’s visibility,” McCorrison said. “It was so foggy, you wouldn’t know you were driving into high water.”

Troublesome weather is possible through Saturday morning. The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory in effect from 4 to 9 a.m. Calling for up to two inches of snow and winds as high as 50 miles per hour.

“Plan on slippery road conditions and poor visibility in snow and blowing snow,” according to the advisory. “A period of light snow could precede strong snow squalls early Saturday morning. The snow squalls will be accompanied by gusty winds and very poor visibility.”