NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - As the sun rises over New Orleans on Wednesday morning, the Crescent City is slowly thawing after a rare and historic winter storm. Residents and visitors are digging out from record-breaking snow, which blanketed rooftops, cars, and the city’s iconic oak trees, leaving picturesque scenes throughout the area.

A young girl from New Orleans experienced snow for the first time in her neighborhood Tuesday morning. Olivia said she woke up early as the snow was coming in, and immediately took a walk with her parents along St.

A blizzard blasted parts of the Gulf Coast on Tuesday and brought the worst snowstorm to New Orleans since 1885. FOX Weather Meteorologist Brandy Campbell was in New Orleans on Wednesday morning with the latest on the historic storm.

A major winter storm that slammed Texas and the northern Gulf Coast is spreading heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain across parts of the Florida panhandle and eastern Carolinas.

A rare frigid storm charged through Texas and the northern Gulf Coast on Tuesday, blanketing New Orleans and Houston with snow that closed highways, grounded nearly all flights and canceled school for more than a million students more accustomed to hurricane dismissals than snow days.

A snowstorm warning was in effect for 31 million people - from southern Texas east through Georgia and north to the Carolinas and into Virginia - until Wednesday morning, the National Weather Service said.