I-10 east from Gramercy in the Baton Rouge area to the Mississippi state line has remained closed since Tuesday after 10 inches of snow dropped on the New Orleans area. Officials have made strides in opening most of the city's other major roadways, but were still working to clear off ice from the popular thoroughfare.

Interstate 10, including the highrise, twin spans and bonnet carre spillway in New Orleans metro to slidell are now open, DOTD and NOPD says.

From New Orleans to Jefferson Parish, there is gridlock on every major alternate road including Earhart, Airline, Veterans, and Jefferson Davis Parkway.

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.

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.

One person is dead, and another has been arrested after a crash on Interstate 10 in New Orleans on Sunday, Jan. 19.

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A motorist was struck and killed outside his disabled vehicle on Interstate 10 early Sunday (Jan. 19) by a man arrested on suspicion of impaired driving, New Orleans police said.

The Louisiana Department of Transportation on Wednesday shut down 230 miles of Interstate 10 from the Texas state line to New Orleans.

The scene along Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans on Tuesday was surreal. Palm trees swayed in the wind amid falling snow and near-blizzard conditions, with wind gusts exceeding 45 mph.

Three days after the historic winter snowstorm moved through South Louisiana, response crews are still working to clear major routes, particularly bridges raised over water.

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry said the state is facing potential record snowfall that could close Mississippi River bridges from Baton Rouge to New Orleans.

A once-in-a-lifetime winter storm pummeled the South, all the way down to the Gulf Coast, with snow and ice. Here's the latest.