The authorities in Louisiana on Wednesday closed a 100-mile stretch of Interstate 10 that spans almost half the state, as a robust winter storm introduced report snowfall to the Gulf Coast and triggered the state’s first-ever blizzard warning.
The announcement shortly after midnight prolonged an preliminary 50-mile closure, between Baton Rouge and Lafayette, west to the Texas border. The state’s Division of Transportation and Growth stated it had closed extra of the freeway in response to deteriorating highway situations.
One other 50-mile stretch of Interstate 10 has been closed in and round New Orleans since early Tuesday. The eight inches of snow that fell at Louis Armstrong New Orleans Worldwide Airport on Tuesday beat a report of two.7 inches set in 1963, in line with the Nationwide Climate Service.
Interstate 10 is one of three highways that run coast-to-coast in america and an important east-west hyperlink for the southern Louisiana cities of New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Lafayette. Its span in Louisiana is just below 275 miles, and connects the state with Mississippi and Texas.
