By nearly all accounts, the city of Boston rolled with the fierce punches delivered by the historic Blizzard of 2015. The Monday night through Wednesday morning snow system officially dropped 24.7 inches of snow on the Hub, with some parts of the city seeing 31 inches, making it the sixth largest storm in Boston’s history.

When not hunkered down like most of the city’s residents, many of Boston’s city officials made stops into local public works yards, all buzzing with activity as plows, salt trucks, and other key pieces of equipment worked around the clock to clear the city’s 850 miles of roadways.

“Normally when I visit I bring coffee and pizza, but everything was closed, so I brought hugs and applause,” said City Councilor Tito Jackson, whose district includes Roxbury and parts of Dorchester, the South End, and Fenway, on Wednesday.

The city of Boston effectively shut down beginning Monday night ahead of what forecasters predicted to be a “potentially devastating” storm, with a city-wide parking ban, closed schools on Tuesday and Wednesday, and a statewide travel ban from Gov. Charlie Baker. That travel ban was partially lifted midday Tuesday as Western Massachusetts saw only a few inches of snow compared to the nearly three feet in some easterly parts of the state.

Jackson and At-Large City Councilor Ayanna Pressley praised the city and state response to the storm.

“The response has been fantastic,” Pressley said. “The main roads are clear and the side streets are getting there. People are using the Citizens Connect app and the response by the city and public works have been swift.”

Over the last three days, the 24-hour Mayor’s Hotline had answered more than 7,000 calls from residents about closures, parking restrictions, shoveling requirements, and more.

At a press conference on Wednesday, Mayor Martin Walsh said he gives the city’s public works department an A grade for their work clearing the roads and asked residents’ vigilance in keeping fire hydrants clear and keeping snow from their cars off roadways.

Walsh would not estimate the storm’s financial impact for the city: “It’ll probably be an expensive storm for us,” he told reporters at a noontime press conference at City Hall.

Walsh also took a hard line for city employees, ordering individual agencies to get “all hands on deck” to clear city-owned properties of snow.

“We will set standard for how snow removal should happen in city of Boston,” he said. “If you don’t clear snow, we will write up the city agencies for tickets and will make tickets available to the press as they are written.”

After the city slowly digs out on Wednesday, the city will be back in action on Thursday, Walsh assured, with trains running, schools open, and law enforcement officers out in force to ticket those who have not cleared roadways and sidewalks.

All of this is to prepare for a second whallop of snow forecasted for Friday–and another possible storm for early next week.