The Interstate 10 closure spans nearly the entire state, ending west of the Mississippi state line east of New Orleans.
Interstate 10 from the Louisiana-Texas state line to as far east as Sorrento or Gramercy could be fully open to traffic in both directions at some point Thursday afternoon, Department of Transportation and Development Secretary Joe Donahue said.
Florida late on Wednesday closed a more than 200-mile stretch of Interstate 10 from the Alabama state line to Exit 192, the U.S. 90 junction, in Gadsden County “due to remaining snow, ice, and water on the roadway combined with incoming hard freeze temperatures overnight resulting in icy and dangerous conditions on bridges and roadways.
Interstate 10, including the highrise, twin spans and bonnet carre spillway in New Orleans metro to slidell are now open, DOTD and NOPD says.
A significant portion of I-10 is closed in both directions in Louisiana west of Baton Rouge to the Texas border.
More than 220 million people across the United States are facing dangerous cold that will also open the door for a potentially historic and crippling winter storm that could deliver snow as far south as Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.
More than 1,300 flights to, from or within the U.S. were already canceled Wednesday morning and more than 900 were delayed, according to online tracker FlightAware.com. Both Houston airports
A powerful winter storm blankets the Southern US in snow, causing unprecedented disruption in New Orleans, Texas, and beyond. Record snowfall, flight cancellations, and power outages reported.
R​oads were still closed Thursday morning after a historic winter storm hit The South, bringing inches of snow to areas not used to seeing any snowfall at all. D​rivers in Southeast Louisiana were urged to continue to stay off the roads on Thursday morning,
Historic snowfall is burying parts of the Gulf Coast amid dangerous cold as a once-in-a-generation winter storm wreaks havoc on travel in a region wholly unaccustomed to winter weather. Footage from across the Gulf Coast showed snow in implausible places,
Southern cities got creative to clear out the ice and snow this week, including one man in Covington, Georgia, who used a flamethrower to de-ice his subdivision.
At least nine people are believed to have died as a result of the dangerous cold gripping much of the country, as a once-in-a-generation winter storm wreaks havoc on the Gulf Coast — a region wholly unaccustomed to winter weather.