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COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. -- Only two weeks into fall, and we've got our first dusting of snow.

"We expect anything in Colorado, which is why I live here, because you don't know what's going to happen one minute or hour to the next," Sunny Geary, a Colorado Springs resident, said.

Saturday morning, Geary woke up to more powder than she expected and was treated to a golf version of Frosty the Snowman, courtesy of a neighbor.

The icy front yard decoration had a baseball cap on his head, a carrot for a nose, and chocolate for eyes.

"It's okay sometimes, most of the time you can't really do anything because it's too cold," Michael Lee, a Colorado Springs resident, said.

Colorado Springs city officials said there was three-and-a-half inches of snow in the north end of town and one foot of snow in Monument.

While the cold weather might have put a damper on the day for some locals, the snow didn't stick.

The Operations Manager for City of Colorado Springs Streets Division, Bard Lower, said, "We weren't really worried main reason being the under ground temperatures are in the 60s."

Road crews expect snow as early as the end of September and are ready to go work. This past Thursday they tested all of their trucks and made sure their sheds were full of supplies.

The only thing they're waiting for now is a storm.

"It was quite a bit more than what they had said, when I woke up this morning I think I stayed in bed a little longer," Nick Miller, a Colorado Springs resident, said.