The storm that struck New Orleans this week left the Gulf Coast city under twice as much snow as Anchorage, Alaska has received in nearly two months. "New Orleans, we'd like our snow back," the NWS Anchorage office said.

The storm prompted the first-ever blizzard warnings for several coastal counties near the Texas-Louisiana border, and snowplows were at the ready in the Florida Panhandle.

Snowball fights are taking place in New Orleans, which hasn't seen snow in 15 years. Up to 10 inches fell in parts of the city. Here & Now's Lisa Mullins talks with WWNO reporter Matt Bloom about how the Big Easy is grappling with all the snow.

For example, Lake Charles, La., along the Gulf Coast, showed snowfall rates of over 1 inch per hour this morning and early afternoon and visibility down to a quarter of a mile with blowing snow. This is one of the reasons why blizzard warnings were posted briefly for that region earlier.

A rare winter storm charging through Texas and the northern Gulf Coast on Tuesday has closed highways and airports and prompted the first blizzard warning for southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana.

Many roadways were impassable, classes were canceled in local schools and many businesses could not open as a winter storm essentially brought New Orleans to a standstill.

A rare winter storm has hit the southern United States bringing widespread snowfall to areas like New Orleans, that hasn't seen snow in years.

It has been more than a decade since snow last fell on New Orleans, where schools are closed through Thursday.

Snow arrives in Mid-City in New Orleans