severe weather center. first let s get to cnn s chad myers. chad, it looks like winter has already arrived in western pennsylvania and it did it early. reporter: it really surprised a lot of people. and it even surprised me because on wednesday, this really wasn t forecast to be a one-foot snow event. then it surprised me today when i went to the rental counter at the airport and said, i need a four-wheel drive. and he said, why? now we re in this position where snow s coming down. a couple of trees on some lines. i don t think they re power lines, more like cable lines or telephone wires. now that it s starting to get dark, things are starting to get colder. this coldness will begin to freeze all this muck on the roadway. there s stuff on the side of the roadways. this stuff here, it s just hard it s got salt and grime and stuff in it. that s going to freeze and this road will become one big ice chunk. we re seeing accidents all across the roads and highways in york coun