Interstate 10, including the highrise, twin spans and bonnet carre spillway in New Orleans metro to slidell are now open, DOTD and NOPD says.

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.

The Interstate 10 closure spans nearly the entire state, ending west of the Mississippi state line east of New Orleans.

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.

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.

After a historic winter storm hit the Interstate 10 corridor on Tuesday, parts of the vital east-west artery remain closed due to icy road conditions in both Louisiana and Florida. In Louisiana, the Department of Transportation and Development has closed Interstate 10 from the small community of Iowa in Calcasieu Parish just

It happened around 10:45 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 17, in St. John the Baptist Parish and the girl’s mother pulled to the side of the road before passing out, the sheriff’s office said in a news release. The parish is about a 30-mile drive northwest from New Orleans.

A significant portion of I-10 is closed in both directions in Louisiana west of Baton Rouge to the Texas border.

Landry said snow and ice will create treacherous travel conditions in regions where there are accumulations and plunging temperatures could create water pressure and delivery problems throughout the state.

A winter storm swept across south Louisiana on Tuesday morning, covering New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Lafayette in a layer of snow.

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry said the state is facing potential record snowfall that could close Mississippi River bridges from Baton Rouge to New Orleans.

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,