The Interstate 10 closure spans nearly the entire state, ending west of the Mississippi state line east of New Orleans.

The latest closure means that nearly three-quarters of Louisiana’s portion of the coast-to-coast highway is shut. A rare winter storm brought record snowfall to the state on Tuesday.

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.

Local interstates and elevated bridges will close early Tuesday morning as freezing temperatures and snow impact the New Orleans area. Interstate 10 will be closed at 4 a.m. in Orleans, Jefferson and St. Charles parishes, according to DOTD.

The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development has released a list of roads previously closed due to the blizzard that have reopened.

The unidentified driver of a white Volkswagen Jetta had pulled over to the right shoulder of I-10 East near Elysian Fields with suspected car trouble when he was hit by a Ford F 250.

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 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.

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

It happened around 10:45 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 17, in St. John the Baptist Parish and the girl’s mother pulled to the side of the road before passing out, the sheriff’s office said in a news release. The parish is about a 30-mile drive northwest from New Orleans.

Temperatures were gradually rising across the U.S. South, bringing hopes that the remaining snow and ice would melt away.