The Bobcats and front-end loaders that IV Waste uses to clear New Orleans streets of Mardi Gras throws will be used to plow snow in the French Quarter beginning Wednesday.
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 winter storm system pummeled south Louisiana with frigid winds and freezing temperatures Tuesday as snow blanketed New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Lafayette.
Video captured snow covering the French Quarter and the historic Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans as a winter storm barreled down on Louisiana.
A rare, historic snowfall blanketed parts of the southern U.S. on Tuesday, allowing residents to play in the rather unusual weather. Families went snow tubing in Houston. People made snowballs and snow angels. People were even seen skiing on Bourbon Street.
The Big Easy was blanketed with historic snowfall Tuesday — Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport received 8 inches, the most in a single storm since records were first kept in 1948, according to the National Weather Service.
Some areas of New Orleans and Houston got more than four inches of snow Tuesday morning in a historic winter storm hitting the south.