A rare winter storm brought snow and freezing rain to parts of the southernmost United States, closing highways and airports and prompting the first-ever blizzard warning for southwest Louisiana.
A video shows nuns and a priest enjoying a snowball fight in Materia, Louisiana, while a skateboarder is pulled along a street in Charleston, South Carolina.
Four people are believed to have died from exposure to the cold so far – two cases are being investigated as cold-related by Austin, Texas, authorities, while two deaths due to hypothermia have been reported in Georgia and Milwaukee.
The severe weather is part of a very cold air mass that has descended on the southern and eastern United States.
