When LSU freshman Ryleigh Loveless looked outside Tuesday morning, she was amazed by the sight of snow draping the campus. She woke up several friends, and they had an impromptu early morning snowball fight outside the dorm.
The Gulf Coast is digging out from a once-in-a-lifetime snowstorm that struck from Texas to Florida, closing airports and crippling roadways.
A significant portion of I-10 is closed in both directions in Louisiana west of Baton Rouge to the Texas border.
All bus services for the Capital Area Transit System remained shut down Wednesday as well. According to service alerts on the system's app, it could have a delayed reopening Thursday. Greyhound bus services at the Baton Rouge Bus Station were also impacted, with its website showing canceled trips to Houston and Atlanta.
Snow totals in Louisiana have broken records. Parts of Florida, Texas and Georgia have also accumulated several inches of snow.
Snowfall totals across the southern half of the state continued to increase in Monday forecasts to what could be record-breaking levels. Here's what to know for the New Orleans metro, the northshore,
Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry said the state is facing potential record snowfall that could close Mississippi River bridges from Baton Rouge to New Orleans.
Interstate 10 in the Baton Rouge metro area reopened to both eastbound and westbound traffic Thursday afternoon, the Department of Transportation and Development announced.
Louisiana DOTD officials have closed a large part of interstate 10 due to the icy conditions on the road. DOTD says that I-10 is closed in both directions from the Louisiana-Texas state line to Baton Rouge.
The latest closure means that nearly three-quarters of Louisiana’s portion of the coast-to-coast highway is shut. A rare winter storm brought record snowfall to the state on Tuesday.
A winter storm that rolled through Southeast Texas and the U.S. Gulf Coast dumped multiple inches of snow on Tuesday across a region already gripped by freezing temperatures. How much snow did Houston get and how does that compare to the snowfalls in New Orleans and across the deep South and Gulf Coast?
Houston police are seeking the public’s help in identifying two men connected to a brutal carjacking that took place on December 16, 2024.