City workers were scrambling Tuesday to drain away pooling water created by a combination of rainfall and melting snow.
"Basically all our staff was out there today opening up puddles and trying to keep the roads safe," Jon Lafontaine, the city's operations supervisor said.
The department's 30 employees are responsible for maintaining roughly 6,000 catch basins around the city.
If there is a silver lining, it's that contrary to an Environment Canada alert issued Monday morning, there was no snowfall in Prince George. However, Lafontaine said the volume of rain was enough to create trouble.
Crews spent much of their time deploying steamers to unclog frozen leads.
The goal is to have everything cleared up before the temperature returns to the colder normals for this time of year.
While the snowfall missed Prince George, it struck Mackenzie to the tune of about 15 centimetres.
But corporate services director Diane Smith said the bulk had melted away by midmorning and crews were out scraping off the icy buildup before the subzero weather returns.
It now looks doubtful any records for warmth will be set. Environment Canada has revised its forecast for Wednesday from a high of 8 C to 6 C. The record for Jan. 18 is 8.3 C, set in 1971.
