The snow that caused major headaches during the morning commute kept police and fire crews responding to car accidents all over the Wasatch Front throughout the afternoon.

Between midnight and 2 p.m. the UHP responded to 164 property damage crashes, 19 minor injury crashes and 24 slide-offs in Salt Lake and Utah Counties.

"It keeps our troopers busy, but not a lot of calls are holding," UHP spokesman Cameron Roden said, saying there have been days in the past with more than 200 calls coming in.

As of 5 p.m., there had been no road closures, no fatal crashes and no critical-injury crashes. There were momentary closures for accidents, but nothing due to snow, Roden said.

Snow plows were out in force early on, but were being taxed by the continuing snowfall. That meant many motorists found ice- and snow-covered lanes the rule as they headed to work. By late morning, however, the sun was peeking through and traffic was resuming normal flows.

Meanwhile, Rocky Mountain Power reported weather-related outages scattered throughout the state. Most of them in northern Utah involved just a few homes here and there, but in southern Utah nearly 340 residents of Apple Valley were left without power by a downed line. Another 20 or so customers near Gunlock also were without power late Tuesday morning.

However, in the Cedar City areas about 2,000 customers of Garkane Energy lost power when heavy snows downed power lines, toppled trees onto lines and caused pole fires.

Garkane spokesman Marcus Lewis, said in eastern Kane County near Big Water and Church Wells up to 20 inches of snow fell since late Monday.

More than a foot of snow has fallen in places throughout eastern Utah, while snowfall totals in northern Utah ranged from a few inches in the valleys to nearly a foot in the mountains.

Utah Transit Authority reported problems with some of its Salt Lake Valley TRAX trains during the storm, but spokesman Gerry Carpenter said the delays -- and, in some cases, one-car trains -- were due to non-weather related mechanical problems.

Tribune reporter Mark Havnes contributed to this report.