The Interstate 10 closure spanned nearly the entire state, ending west of the Mississippi state line east of New Orleans. Meanwhile, the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) had deployed crews traveling in both directions to treat the interstate's surfaces in an effort to restore normal traffic flow.

Truckers who move goods across hundreds of miles of Louisiana highway must make their own calculus in the face of a snowstorm.

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.

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.

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,

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

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,

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.

From Florida to Texas, large chunks of the southern United States were blanketed in snow Tuesday during a historic snowstorm.

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.

Although the skies were bright blue and temperatures had inched above freezing by Wednesday afternoon, much of Interstate 10 and many other major south Louisiana thoroughfares remained closed ...